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Epidemiology

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• science that evaluates occurrence, determinants,
distribution, and control of health and disease in a defined
human population

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• sporadic disease (example: histoplasmosis, gas gangrene)

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– occurs occasionally and at irregular intervals

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• endemic disease (example: gonorrhea, Dengue fever)

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– maintains a relatively steady low-level frequency at a moderately regular interval

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• holoendemic diseases (example: malaria)

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– occurs at a high, constant level throughout a population

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• epidemic (example: influenza, meningococcal infections)

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– sudden increase in frequency above expected number

– index case – first case in an epidemic

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• outbreak

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– sudden, unexpected occurrence of disease

– usually focal or in a limited segment of population

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• pandemic

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– increase in disease occurrence within large population over wide region
(usually worldwide)

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Morbidity rate

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  • an incidence rate
  • number of new cases in a specific time period per unit of population
equation
# new cases during a specific time over
# individuals in population
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Prevalence rate

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  • total number of individuals infected at any one time per unit of population
  • depends both on incidence rate and duration of illness
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Mortality rate

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• number of deaths from a disease per number of cases of the disease

equation
# deaths due to given disease over
size of total population with disease

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R0 or R(0), “R-naught” =

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number of secondary cases one case would

produce in a completely susceptible population

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R(0) calculated as a function of 3 primary parameters

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• duration of contagiousness after a person becomes infected
• likelihood of infection per contact between a susceptible person
and an infectious person or vector
• contact rate

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Recognition of an Infectious
Disease in a Population
(2)

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• involves use of surveillance methods
• cases of a disease recognized by its characteristic
disease syndrome

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cases of a disease recognized by its characteristic
disease syndrome
(3)

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– set of signs and symptoms characteristic of a disease
– signs
– symptoms

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– signs

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• objective changes in body that can be directly observed

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– symptoms

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• subjective changes experienced by patient

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• incubation period

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– period after pathogen entry but before

signs and symptoms appear

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• prodromal stage

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– onset of signs and symptoms

– not clear enough for diagnosis

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• period of illness

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– disease is most severe and has

characteristic signs and symptoms

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• convalescence

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– signs and symptoms begin to disappear

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Correlation with a Single Causative Agent
(2)

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• after recognition of infectious disease in a population, outbreak
correlated with specific pathogen [e.g. HIV/AIDS (early 1980s), SARS
CoV (2003), SARS-CoV-2 (2019-2020)]
• clinical microbiologists help in isolation and identification of pathogen

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Recognition of an Epidemic

• 2 types of epidemics

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common source epidemic

propagated epidemic

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threshold density =

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the minimum number of individuals necessary to continue propagating the disease

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Herd immunity

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• resistance of a population to infection and to spread of an
infectious organism because of the immunity of a large
percentage of the population

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Herd immunity

• level can be altered by

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introduction of new susceptible

individuals into population

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Herd immunity

• level can be altered by changes in

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pathogen

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– antigenic shift –

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major change in antigenic character of pathogen

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– antigenic drift –

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smaller antigenic changes

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  1. What Pathogen Caused the Disease?

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• Kochs postulates (or
modifications) are used if
possible
• clinical microbiology lab
• communicable disease
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clinical microbiology lab

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– plays important role in
isolation and identification of
pathogen

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communicable disease

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– can be transmitted from one

host to another

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source

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– location from which pathogen

is transmitted to host

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• period of infectivity

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– time during which source is
infectious or is disseminating
the organism

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• reservoir (2)

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– site or natural environmental
location in which pathogen is
normally found
– sometimes functions as
source of pathogen
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Human sources/reservoirs
• carrier
(3)

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– infected host
– can be casual (acute or transient)
carrier – short time
– can be chronic carrier – long time

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active carrier

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– has overt clinical case of disease

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• convalescent carrier

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– has recovered from disease but continues to harbor large

numbers of pathogen

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• healthy carrier

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– harbors pathogen but is not ill

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• incubatory carrier

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– harbors pathogen but is not yet ill

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Animal reservoirs

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  • numerous diseases are zoonoses
  • transmission to human can be direct or indirect
  • vectors– organisms that spread disease from one host to another
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  1. Airborne Transmission

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  • pathogen suspended in air and travels ³ 1 meter
  • droplet nuclei
  • dust particles also important route of airborne transmission
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• droplet nuclei

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– small particles (1-4 micrometers in diameter)
– can remain airborne for long time (hours to days)
– can travel long distances
– usually propelled from respiratory tract of source organisms by sneezing,
coughing, or vocalization

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Contact Transmission

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  • coming together or touching of source/reservoir and host
  • direct contact (person-to-person)
  • droplet spread
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• direct contact (person-to-person)

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physical interaction between source/reservoir and host

– e.g., kissing, touching, and sexual contact

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droplet spread

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– large particles (>5 micrometers) that travel < 1 meter

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Vehicle Transmission

• Vehicles =

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inanimate materials or objects involved in pathogen
transmission
– water and food (spread pathogen to multiple hosts)
– fomites = inanimate objects: surgical instruments, bedding and eating
utensils

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. Vector-Borne Transmission
• external (mechanical) transmission
(2)

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– passive carriage of pathogen on body of vector

– no growth of pathogen during transmission

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. Vector-Borne Transmission
• internal transmission
(3)

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– carried within vector
– harborage transmission – pathogen does not undergo changes within
vector (bubonic plaque: Yersinia pestis in flea)
– biologic transmission – pathogen undergoes changes within vector
(malaria: Plasmodium spp. in Anopheles spp. mosquito)

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Why Was the Host Susceptible to the Pathogen?

• two main factors

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– defense mechanisms of host

– pathogenicity of pathogen

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  1. How Did the Pathogen Leave the Host? (2)
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  • active escape

* passive escape

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active escape

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– movement of pathogen to portal of exit
[helminths (worms) that migrate through
the body of the host]

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passive escape

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– excretion in feces, urine, droplets, saliva, or

desquamated cells [microbes]

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Control of Epidemics (3)

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  1. Reduce or eliminate source or reservoir
  2. Break connection between source and susceptible individuals\
  3. Reduce number of susceptible individuals
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  1. Reduce or eliminate source or reservoir

4

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– quarantine and isolation of cases and carriers
– destruction of animal reservoir
– treatment of sewage
– therapy that reduces or eliminates infectivity of cases

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  1. Break connection between source and susceptible individuals
    (4)
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– chlorination of water supplies
– pasteurization of milk
– supervision & inspection of food & food handlers
– destruction of insect vectors with pesticides

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  1. Reduce number of susceptible individuals

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augment herd immunity:
– passive immunity following exposure
– active immunity for protection

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