Exam 1 Matching

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Reservoir Host

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A host that serves as a source of infection and potential reinfection of humans and as a means of sustaining a parasite when it is not infecting humans.

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Definitive Host

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a host in which the parasite reaches maturity and, if possible, reproduces sexually.

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Paratenic Host

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An intermediate host whose presence may be required for the completion of a parasite’s life cycle but in which no development of the parasite occurs.

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Intermediate Host

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the host in which a parasite undergoes development but does not reach sexual maturity.

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Vector

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Bridge between an infected host and a possible host

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Endemic

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The amount of disease you expect to see in a population

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Zoonosis

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A disease that can be transmitted from an animal to a person

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Epidemic

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a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.

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Prevalence

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The number infected divided by the population of host

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Incidence

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the occurrence, rate, or frequency of a disease

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Pathogen

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is a biological agent that causes disease or illness to its host.

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Pathogenicity

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is the potential capacity of certain species of microbes or viruses to cause a disease.

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Parasitemia

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is the quantitative content of parasites in the blood.

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Acute infection

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invasion and multiplication of microorganisms in body tissues, especially that causing local cellular injury due to competitive metabolism, toxins, intracellular replication or antigen-antibody response.

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Chronic infection

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A long term infection

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Transmammary (lactogenic) transmission

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The lactogenic rout, like puppies getting milk from mother

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Transplacental transmission

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Rout through the uterus

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Infective stage larva (L3)

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The stage at which larva can infect host

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Percutaneous transmission

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Rout through the skin

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Autoinfection

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reinfection with larvae produced by parasitic worms already in the body

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Epidemiology

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is the science that studies the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined populations.

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Diarrhea

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Loose and watery stool

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Immunosuppression

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Suppression of the immune system and its ability to fight infection.

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Inflammation

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is a process by which the body’s white blood cells and chemicals protect us from infection with foreign substances, such as bacteria and viruses.

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Primary infection

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The first time your exposed to a pathogen

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Secondary infection

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A secondary infection is an infection that occurs during or after treatment of another pre-existing infection.

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Centrifugal flotation

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When you use a centrifuge and run a flotation of stool mixed with solution

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Simple flotation

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When you let the fecal stand for 15-20 minutes and let the cells go to the top of the stand and stick to the slide

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Sheathets sucrose solution

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Coccidial oocysts are easier to see in Sheather’s solution compared to salt solutions, and is made of sugar

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Nosocomial infection

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is an infection whose development is favored by a hospital environment, such as one acquired by a patient during a hospital visit or one developing among hospital staff.

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Epizootic

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of, relating to, or denoting a disease that is temporarily prevalent and widespread in an animal population.

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Enzootic

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is the non-human equivalent of endemic and means, in a broad sense, “belonging to” or “native to”, “characteristic of”, or “prevalent in” a particular geography, race, field, area, or environment; native to an area or scope.

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Symptomatic

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serving as a symptom or sign, especially of something undesirable.

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Asymptomatic

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(of a condition or a person) producing or showing no symptoms.

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Disease animal

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When symptoms are being shown of the disease

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Carrier animal

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When symptoms are not being shown but can still pass the disease

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Age associated immune

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They become immune with age

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Hypobiosis

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Parasite goes into the tissue and hides out, after the medicine comes out of body the parasites come out and become active

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Pre-patent period

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The time between when an animal is first infected with a parasite and when it starts passing eggs