Communicable disease Flashcards
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Industrial chemicals
Chemical Agents
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Heat
Physical Agents
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Viruses
Biological Agents
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Air pollutants
Chemical Agents
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Radiation
Physical Agents
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Speeding objects and Noise
Physical
an illness
caused by some specific biological
agent or its toxic products that can
be transmitted from an infected
person, animal, or inanimate
reservoir to a susceptible host
Communicable
(infectious) disease
a
disease that cannot be transmitted
from infected host to susceptible host
Noncommunicable
(noninfectious) disease
The establishment of a communicable disease agent in a host organism is called
Infection
many noncommunicable health conditions are
called
multicausation diseases
the ability of a
biological agent to enter and grow
in the host
Infectivity
the capability
of a communicable disease agent to
cause disease in a susceptible host
Pathogenicity
the minimal requirements
for the occurrence and spread
of communicable diseases in a
population—agent, host, and
environment
Communicable disease
model
the cause of the disease or health
problem
Agent (pathogenic agent)
a person or other living
organism that affords subsistence or
lodgment to a communicable agent
under natural conditions
Host
a model
to conceptualize the transmission
of a communicable disease from its
source to a susceptible host
Chain of infection
a person who is sick with a
disease
Case
a person or animal that
harbors a specific communicable
agent in the absence of discernible
clinical disease and serves as a
potential source of infection to others
Carrier