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1
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the acquisition of the pathogen, or its transition into pathogenicity

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Infection

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the time between infection and the
arrival of the first symptoms

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Incubation

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This stage of disease, when generalized, mild
symptoms arise

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Prodromal period

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when symptoms are most evident—this is
the time the disease is usually identified

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Illness

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when treatment and/or the immune
system work to combat the disease limiting/ destroying it

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Decline

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the recovery from the disease

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Convalescence

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Diseases spread by animals

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Zoonotic diseases

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Transmission of zoonotic diseases can occur through these four ways

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  • Eating infected animal meat
  • contact w/ animal waste
  • animal bites
  • biological vectors
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a person affected by a condition but producing or showing no symptoms of it is called

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asymptomatic

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10
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diseases that arise when a patient is
hospitalized for something else are called:

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Nosocomial infections

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when pathogens are spread by people or
by objects that people touch

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Contact transmission

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What is the method of transmission meaning person-to- person?

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Direct Contact

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What is the method of transmission done via inanimate objects
that transmit the pathogens?

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Indirect Contact

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What is the method of transmission that can occur if two people are very close when one coughs or sneezes?

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Droplet transmission

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When pathogens are spread by a nonliving intermediate

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Vehicle transmission

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the spread of a pathogen
through an intermediate animal i.e. an insect

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Vector transmission

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when the pathogen
reproduces within the vector

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Biological Vectors

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when the pathogen
doesn’t reproduce within the vector, but the
vector physically moves the pathogen

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Mechanical Vectors

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What is Epidemiology?

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the study of the frequency and
distribution of disease and other health-related factors in a population

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This disease can produce a set of toxins that cause a massive immune reaction.
(Name of disease and bacteria name)

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Toxic shock syndrome and name is Staphylococcus aureus.

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Name 6 symptoms of S. aureus

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Fever, vomting, rash, rapid blood pressure loss, and loss old skin

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What are the treatments for toxic shock syndrome?

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Antibiotics (that aren’t beta-lactams)
Prevent organ failure!

23
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This disease is hemolytic gram-positive bacterium that can lead to several diseases, such as scarlet fever and Rheumatic fever.
(Name of disease and bacteria)

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Pharyngitis and Streptococcus pyogenes (strep throat)

24
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What are the symptoms of strep throat?

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Swollen lymph nodes, inflammation of that back of the pharynx, and puss-filled abscesses covering the tonsils.

25
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What is the treatment for S. pyogenes

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long term antibiotics.

26
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What disease cause ingestion of the toxin.
(Name of disease and Bacteria)

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Botulism Clostridium botulinum

27
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What are the symptom’s of C. botulinum

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Blurred vision, dizziness, dry mouth, progressive paralysis, and possibly death

28
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What are the treatments?

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Repeated washing of the intestinal tract to remove Clostridium, antibodies to neutralize toxins, and antibiotics in infant infections.

29
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This disease is an anaerobic gram-positive spore-forming rod that leads to a disease known as pseudomembranous colitis.
(Name of bacteria)

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Clostridium difficile

30
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What are the symptoms of C. difficile?

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Inflammation and possible necrosis of the colon walls.

31
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What is the treatment of C. difficile?

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Stronger antibiotics and fecal transplant

32
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This disease is gram positive, acid fast aerobic bacillus.
(name of disease and bacteria)

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Tuberculosis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis

33
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What is the symptoms of tuberculosis?

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persistent productive cough, frequently with blood in the sputum, fever, weakness, and more symptom’s.

34
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What is the treatment for tuberculosis?

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Long-term antibiotic.

35
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This diseases is a non-motile, aerobic gram-negative coccobacillus.
(name of disease and bacteria)

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Whooping cough and Bordetella pertussis

36
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What is the symptoms of whooping cough?

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difficulty breathing, broken ribs, exhaustion, vomiting, and cold-like.

37
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What is the treatment for whooping cough?

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Vaccination is prevention, individual symptoms.

38
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This disease is a thin, gram-negative spirochete. Its a sexually transmitted infection that has three major stages.
(name of disease and bacteria)

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Syphilis and Treponema pallidum

39
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What are the 3 major stages of syphilis?

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Primary syphilis (Chancre), Secondary syphilis, Tertiary syphilis.

40
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What is the symptoms of primary syphilis?

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This is frequently painless and may not be noticed.

41
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What is the symptoms of secondary syphilis?

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Whole body rash, fever, headaches, and sore throat.

42
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What is the symptoms of Tertiary syphilis?

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benign tumors, liver, skin, bone, and cartilage. Painful but not fatal.

43
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What is the treatments of syphilis?

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Antibiotics and prevention

44
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This disease is a gram-negative aerobic diplococcus and is sexually transmitted disease with different symptoms in men and women.
(name of disease and bacteria)

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Gonorrhea and Neisseria gonorrhea

45
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What are the symptoms of Gonorrhea?

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Males: painful urination, pus, infertility.
Females: Asymptomatic, pelvic inflammatory disease, and genital tract.

46
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What is the treatment for Gonorrhea?

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Antibiotics such as cephalosporins.

47
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This disease is an enteric bacterium that is the causative agent and is from squirrels.
(name of disease and bacteria)

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Bubonic plague and Yersinia pestis

48
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What are the symptoms of the bubonic plague?

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high fever and swollen lymph nodes.

49
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What is the treatment of the bubonic plague?

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Antibiotics.

50
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What are the symptoms of Hepatitis?

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Jaundice, abdominal distress, bleeding into skin and internal organs, and chronic inflammation leading to cirrhosis

51
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What is the treatment for Hepatitis?

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Vaccination

52
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What are the stages of disease?

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1)Infection
2)Incubation
3)Prodromal period
4)Illness
5)Decline
6)Convalescence

53
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What are the methods of transmission?

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1)Contact transmission
2)Direct contact
3)Droplet transmission
4)Vehicle transmission
5) Airborne transmission
6)waterborne transmission
7) food borne transmission
8)bodily fluid transmission
9)vector transmission

54
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Name the 2 types of vectors?

A

Biological vectors and mechanical vectors.

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