FINALS - NCMB 312 (Com. Disease & Immunization) Flashcards
An illness due to a specific infectious agent or its toxic products that arises through transmission of that agent directly or indirectly to well person
Communicable Disease
spread by direct contact w/ infectious agents causing the disease and easily transmitted from 1 person to another through direct or indirect means
Contagious disease
disease not only by ordinary contact but requires direct inoculation of organism through a break on the skin or mucous membrane
Infectious disease
is intermittent occurrence of few isolated unrelated cases in given locality disease occurs occasionally irregularly, no specific pattern
Sporadic disease
continuous occur throughout a period of time, of usual number of cases in a given locality, constantly present in population, community or country
Endemic disease
occurrence is of unusually large number of cases in a relatively short period of time
Epidemic disease
an epidemic disease that occur worldwide, simultaneous occurrence of epidemic of same disease in several countries
Pandemic disease
develops rapidly (rapid onset) but lasts only a short time
Acute disease
which develops more slowly but lasts for a long period
Chronic disease
which is the intermediate between acute and chronic, develops rapidly and has long duration with the examples of bacterial endocarditis
Sub-acute disease
with causative agent remains inactive for a time but then becomes active to produce symptoms of the disease, an infection held in check by the defensive forces of the body but activated when the body resistance is reduced
Latent disease
is the reappearance of symptoms after infectious disease has been treated or subsided and renewed presence of same infectious agent.
Recurrent infection
which after an initial infectious agent has been eliminated, a new infection occurs caused by the same organism or by another strain of same species
Re-infection
happens during period of the illness,
additional infection occurs by another infectious agent.
Super-infection
in which the infected person is his own direct source of reexposure.
Autoinfection
extends from entry of microorganism to body to onset of nonspecific signs and symptoms
Incubation period
extends from the onset of nonspecific signs and symptoms to the appearance of specific signs
and symptoms which are the cardinal or the pathognomonic signs
Prodromal period
which the host experiences maximum impact of infectious process and specific signs and
symptoms develop and become evident.
Illness period
is a recovery period as
manifestations subside and signs and symptoms start to abate until the client returns to normal state of health.
Convalescent period
“Law on Reporting of
Communicable Diseases”
- to protect and promote the right to health of the people and instill health consciousness among them
RA No. 11332
form of viruses, bacteria, fungus, parasite and protozoa
Infectious agent
its ability to produce disease
pathogenicity
its severity or harmfulness
degree of virulence
its tendency to spread.
invasiveness
