Phagocytosis and Bacterial Pathogens.
Copyright 2001. Thomas Terry, Univ. of Conn.
Last revised: Monday, December 17, 2001
The following interactive flash tutorial was designed to help microbiology students (and other biology students) visualize the process of phagocytosis in macrophages, and to see how two very different pathogenic bacteria block this process, creating two of history's most important diseases: plague and tuberculosis. This tutorial is being submitted to the American Society for Microbiology Visual Resource Collection so that it can be maintained and widely shared.
The tutorial can be used in two different ways -- for maximum benefit, use both:
- As visual enrichment during classroom presentations
- As a homework exercise. The attached worksheet can be printed out by students or modified and handed out by the instructor. All the information needed to answer the questions can be found in the tutorial.
Link to the Flash animation Link to the homework worksheet
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