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Chapter 59: Principles of Epidemiology Flashcards

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what is 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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what is sporadic disease and give example

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  • occurs occasionally and at irregular intervals
  • histoplasmosis
  • gas gangrene
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what is endemic disease and give examples

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  • maintains a relatively steady low level frequency at a moderately regular interval
  • gonorrhea
  • dengue fever
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what is holoendemic diseases and what is an example

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  • occurs at a high, constant level throughout a population
  • malaria
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what is epidemic and give exmaple

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  • sudden increase in frequency above expected number
  • influenza and meningococcal infection
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what is the first case in an epidemic called

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index case

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what is an outbreak

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sudden unexpected occurrence of disease
- usually focal or in a limited segment of population

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what is a pandemic

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increase in disease occurrence within large population over wide region

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what is morbidity rate

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  • an incidence rate
  • number of new cases in a specific time period per unit of population
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what is prevalance 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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what is mortality rate

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

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what is R0 or 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 infection
  • likelihood of infection per contact between a susceptible person and an infectious person or vector
  • contact rate
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what does infectious disease epidemioogy try to determine

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  • causative agent
  • source and/or resevoir of disease agent
  • mechanism of transmission
  • host and environmental factors that facilitate development of disease within a defined population
  • best control measures
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what are signs

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objective changes in body that can be directly observed

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what are symptoms

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subjective changes experienced by patient

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what is the course of infectious disease

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-incubation period
- prodromal stage
- period of illness
- convalescence

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what is the incubation period

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period after pathogen entry but before signs and symptoms appear

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what is prodromal stage

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onset of signs and symptoms
- not clear enough for diagnosis

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what is period of illness

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disease is most severe and has characterisitc signs and symptoms

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what is convalescence

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signs and symptoms begin to disappear

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what are the 2 types of epidemics

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common source epidemics and propagated epidemic

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what is threshold density

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minimum number of individuals necessary to continue propagating the disease

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what is 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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what is antigenic shift

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major change in antigenic character of pathogen

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what is antigenic drift

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smaller antigenic changes

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what is a source

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location from which the pathogen is transmitted to the host

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what is period of infectivity

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time during which source is infectious or disseminating the organism

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what is a reservoir

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site or natural environmental location in which pathogen in normally found
- can function as source of pathogen

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what is an active carrier

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has overt clinical case of disease

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what is convalescent carrier

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has recovered from disease but continues to harbor large numbers of pathogen

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what is a healthy carrier

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harbors pathogen but is not ill

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what is an incubatory carrier

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harbors pathogen but it not YET ill

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describe animal reservoirs

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  • numerous diseases are zoonosed
  • ## transmission to human can be direct or indirect
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what are vectors

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organisms that spread disease from one host to another

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what are the types of airborne transmission

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  • pathogen suspended in air and travels more than 1 meter
  • droplet nuclei
  • dust particles
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describe droplet nuclei

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small particles
- can remain airborne for llong time
- can travel long distances
- usually propelled from respiratory tract of source organisms by sneezing, coughing or vocalization

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what is contact transmission

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  • coming together or touching of source/ reservoir and host
  • direct contact
  • droplet spread
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what are vehicles of transmission

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inanimate materials or objects involved in pathogen transmission

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what is external vector borne transmission

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passive carriage of pathogen on body of vector
- no growth of pathogen during transmission

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what is internal transmission of vectors

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  • carried within vector
  • harborage transmission - pathogen does not undergo changes within vectro
  • biologic trnasmission- pathogen undergoes changes within vector
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why is a host susceptible to a pathogen

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  • defense mechanisms of the host
  • pathogenicity of pathogen
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how does a pathogen leave the host

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  • active escape: movement of pathogen to portal of exit
  • passive escape: excretion in feces, urine, droplets, saliva or desquaminated cells
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how are epidemics controlled

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  • reduce or eliminate source of reservoir
  • break connection between source and susceptible individuals
  • reduce number of susceptible individuals
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how are reservoirs reduced or eliminated

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  • quarantine and isolation of cases and carriers
  • destruction of animal reservoir
  • treatment of sewage
  • therapy that reduced or eliminates infectivity of cases
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how is connection between source and susceptible individuals broken

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  • chlorination of water supplies
  • pasteruization of milk
  • supervision and insepction of food and food handlers
  • destruction of insect vectors with pesticides
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how is the number of susceptible individuals reduced

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  • passive immunity following exposure
  • active immunity for protection
  • herd immunity

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