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Emergence and Spread of Infection Flashcards

1
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When is a patient most infectious?

A

At the end of the incubation period before symptoms truly begin to show

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What is the latency period?

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Period in which the pathogen is not multiplying or infectious

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What is the incubation period?

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Multiplying and highly infectious at the end of it

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What is the prodromal period?

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Highly infectious but hard to diagnose because of broad symptoms

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5
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What is the convalescent period?

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Getting over the disease

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What is a source?

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The place the host acquires the disease

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What is a reservoir?

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Where the pathogen grows and multiplies (can be the same as the source)

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If an infection always cause a disease what quality does it have?

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100% morbidity

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What is the difference between a venereal disease and an STD?

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Venereal diseases is strictly sexually transmitted and an STD is not always sexually transmitted such as HIV

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What is a subclinical carrier?

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A person that is not showing signs of infection but is infected

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What is an infection?

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Invasion of normal sterile tissues by an organism

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What is a latent carrier?

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A person that has a disease that has not replicated or with limited replication (ie herpes)

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What is a non communicable infection?

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An infection that cannot be transmitted from person to person (human is the reservoir but not the source)

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What is Ro?

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The number of people infected by one patient

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What is incidence?

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The number of new cases over a period of time

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What is prevalence?

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The total number of patients in an outbreak

17
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What are the 5 ways fecal oral transmission occurs?

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Fingers, food, flies, feces, fomites

18
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What is the hardest transmission to stop?

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Air/droplet

19
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What is a vector?

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Living non vertebrate transmitter

20
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What is a biological vector?

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A host

21
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What is a mechanical vector?

A

A passive carrier

22
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What are the two types of vertical transmission?

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Intrauterine (congenital)

Perinatal (birth canal/milk/contact)

23
Q

What does ToRCHS stand for?

A 
Toxoplasma gondii
Rubella
Cytomegalovirus
Herpes & HIV
Syphilis
24
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How is disease index calculated?

A

Morbidity/Infected

25
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What is the difference between virulence and case fatality?

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Virulence= mortality/morbidity (untreated patients)

Case fatality is mortality/morbidity in treated patients

26
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What is morbidity?

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Morbidity/Population in a given amount of time

27
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What is and endemic?

A

Low but constant in a location

28
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What is an epidemic?

A

Higher than normal

29
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What is a pandemic?

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Worldwide

30
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What type of epidemiology usually describes zoonotic diseases?

A

Sporadic and endemic

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