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We'll talk about how that happens a little bit as we go through here.
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Generally,
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you think about the immune system protecting
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against different classes of pathogens
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and several classes of pathogens are shown on this table.
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So, you're familiar with some of these bacteria like salmonella,
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or the micro bacterium that causes tuberculosis are shown here.
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Viruses, you know about viruses; variola,
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we're going to talk about next week which causes smallpox,
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influenza, which causes the flu
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and HIV of course which cause AIDS are some examples.
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Fungi which don't often cause infections in people