14. Infection, Infectious Diseases, And Epidemiology

Question 0

3 types of symbiosis

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Mutualism
Commensalism
Parasitism

Question 1

Symbiosis

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“To live together”

A close association between organisms that ranges from mutually beneficial to one damaging the other

Question 2

Parasite

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Organism that derives benefit from host while harming or killing it

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Host

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Supports the parasite, typically to its own detriment

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Pathogen

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Any parasite that causes disease

Question 5

Normal microbiota

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Organisms that colonize the body’s surfaces without normally causing disease

Question 6

3 reservoirs of disease

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Animal
Human
Nonliving

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Etiology

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The study of the cause of a disease

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Symptoms

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Subjective characteristics of a disease that can be felt by the patient alone

Question 9

Signs

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Objective manifestations of disease that can be observed or measured by others

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Syndromes

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Group of symptoms and signs that characterizes a disease or abnormal condition

Question 11

3 major portals of entry by a pathogen

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Skin
Mucous membrane
Placenta

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4th portal of entry ____ ____: pathogens directly deposited into tissue beneath skin or mucous membranes

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Parenteral route

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Hereditary

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Errors in genetic code

Question 14

Congenital

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Anatomical & physiological defects present at birth

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Degenerative

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Nutritional disease

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Question 17

Endocrine disease

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Question 18

Mental disease

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Immunological disease

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Neoplastic disease

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Infectious disease

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Latrogenic disease

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Idiopathic disease

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Nosocomial disease

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Question 25

Virulence

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Degree of pathogenicity

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Virulence factors (5)

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Adhesion factors
Biofilm formation
Extracellular enzymes
Toxins
Antiphagocytic factors

Question 27

Modes of infectious disease transmission

Answer 27

Contact
Vehicle
Vector