[12] Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases

Question 1

Define: Infectiousness

Answer 1

Relative ease by which an agent is transmitted to other hosts

Question 2

Define: Infectivity

Answer 2

Capability of the agent to enter, survive, and multiply in the host

Question 3

Define: Virulence

Answer 3

Disease producing potential of an agent

Question 4

Define: Pathogenicity

Answer 4

Extent to which overt disease is produced in an infected population

Question 5

Define: Isolation

Answer 5

Sequestration of symptomatic patients either in home or hospital

Question 6

Define: Quarantine

Answer 6

Separation from circulation in the community of asymptomatic patients that may have been exposed