Epidemiology Flashcards
Infections transmitted to man from vertebrate animals are known as:
Anthropozoonoses
Endemic Disease’ means that a disease:
Is constantly present in a given population group
Occurrence of a disease in a haphazard and irregular pattern is known as:
Sporadic
Sentinel surveillance is done to detect
Missing number of cases
The ability of an infectious agent to invade and multiply in a host is called
Infectivity
Disease infectious before onset of symptoms is:
Measles
Disease imported in a country, which was not otherwise present?
Exotic disease
Mites are the vectors of
Scabies
Scrub typhus
Rickettsial pox
Pyrethrum is a
Contact poison
Example of cyclopropagative transmission is:
Malarial parasite in mosquito
Cyclopropagative transmission
Agent changes in form and number
Agent merely multiples in vector, but no change in form:
Propagative transmission
Agent undergoes only development but no multiplication
Cyclodevelopmental transmission
statements about mosquito
It is a definitive host in malaria
Its life cycle is completed in 3 weeks
The female can travel upto 3 kilometers
Babesiosis is transmitted by:
Tick
diseases are caused by Soft Tick
Q fever
Relapsing fever
KFD
Flight range for Aedes Mosquito is
100 METERS
Normal life span of mosquitoes is:
8-34 days
Drug of choice for Scabies is:
5% Permethrin
Scabies is transmitted by:
Mite
Aedes mosquito transmit
(a) Yellow fever
(b) Dengue fever
(c) Chikungunya fever
Fenthion
Organophosphate insecticides
