11.3 + 11.4 Flashcards
the primary habitat in the natural world where a potential pathogen makes its home
; the natural host or habitat of a pathogen
reservoir
the individual or object from which an infection is acquired
transmitter
In the case of Hep A., the human carrier is the __________, and the contaminated food is the ___________.
Options: reservoir, transmitter
- Reservoir
2. Trasnmitter
a person who harbors infections and inconspicuously spreads them to others
*the person may or may have experiences disease due to the microbe
carrier
what are the different carrier states
- asymptomatic carrier - infected but show no signs of disease (ie. gonorrhea, HPV)
- incubating carrier - spread the infectious agent during the incubation period (ie. infectious mononucleosis)
- Convalescent carrier - recuperating patients without symptoms; they continue to shed viable microbes and convey the infection to others (ie. Hep A.)
- Chronic carrier - individuals who shelter the infectious agent for a long period after recovery b/c of the latency of the infectious agent (ie. tuberculosis, typhoid fever)
- Passive carrier - medical and dental personnel who constantly handle patient materials that are heavily contaminated with patient secretions and blood and risk picking up pathogens mechanically and accidentally transferring them to other patients (ie. various healthcare associated infections)
what are the majority of animal reservoir agents?
arthropods such as fleas, mosquitoes, flies, ticks
-> but larger animals like mammals (rabies), birds (psittacosis), or lizards (salmonellosis) can also spread infection
an infection indigenous to animals but also transmissible to humans is a
zoonosis
list some examples of zoonotic viral infections
rabies, yellow fever, hantavirus, West Nile virus, influenza,
list some common zoonotic bacterial infections
Rocky Mountain spotted fever (spread by dogs/ticks) Psittacosis (birds) Leptospirosis (domestic animals) Anthrax (domestic animals) Brucellosis (cattle, sheep, pigs) Plague (rodents, fleas) Salmonellosis (mammals, birds, reptiles, rodents) Tularemia (rodents, birds, arthropods)
list some common zoonotic other microbes
Ringworm (domestic animals) Toxoplasmosis (cats, rodents, birds) Trypanosomiasis (domestic and wild mammals) Trichinosis (swine, bears) Tapeworm (cattle, swine, fish)
True or False: SARS-CoC-2 belongs to a class of infections that has a zoonotic origin, but has jumped species to be transmissible between humans
TRUE
list some nonliving reservoirs
soil, water, air
a disease is _________ when an infected host can transmit the infectious agent to another host and establish infection in that host
it is the microbe that is __________, not the disease
communicable
a highly communicable disease is _______
contagious
a ___________ infectious disease does not arise through transmission of the infectious agent from host to host, it is acquired through some other special circumstance
noncommunicable
this type of infection sometimes occurs when a compromised person is invaded by his or her own microbiota
-> persons with this type of infection do not become a source of infection to others
noncommunicable
the disease is spread through a population from one infected individual to another
horizontal transmission
transmission from parent to offspring via the ovum, sperm, placenta, or milk
vertical transmission
inanimate object that harbors and transmits pathogens (ie. doorknobs, phones, faucets)
fomite
a natural, nonliving, material that can transmit infectious agents
vehicle
mechanical vector transmission
insect carries microbes to hosts on its body parts
biological vector transmission
insect injects microbes into host; part of microbe life cycle completed in insect