TOPICS: Virulence factors, Pili, IgA protease, flagella, capsule, M protein, Protein A, Type III secretion system, gram-negative, gram-positive, adherence, motility, phagocytosis, exotoxins, endotoxins, opsonization, Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae type b, Neisseria meningitidis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, rheumatic fever, Streptococcus pyogenes (GAS), Salmonella, Shigella, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, lipopolysaccharide (LPS), lipid A, cytokines, sepsis, septic shock, plasmid, bacteriophage, lysogenic conversion, diphtheria toxin, exotoxin A, shiga toxin, shiga-like toxin, enterohemorrhagic escherichia coli (EHEC), Corynebacterium diphtheriae, heat-labile toxin (LT), Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC), heat-stable toxin (ST), cholera toxin (vibrio cholera), edema factor, Bacillus anthracis, pertussis toxin, Bordetella pertussis, tetanospasmin, Renshaw cell, tetanospasm, Clostridium tetani, botulinum toxin, Clostridium botulinum, alpha toxin, Clostridium perfringens, streptolysin O, rheumatic fever, poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis, Streptococcus pyogenes, toxic shock syndrome toxin (TSST-1), Staphylococcus aureus, lecithinase, SNARE proteins, superantigen, erythrogenic toxin A, MHC II, CD4+, antigen-presenting cell (APC)
