Infection

Question 1

direct contact

Answer 1

person-to-person

Question 2

indirect contact

Answer 2

object in between

Question 3

droplet

Answer 3

spread via delivery or respiratory secretions

Question 4

aerosol

Answer 4

suspended in air

Question 5

vector borne

Answer 5

spread via insects or animals

Question 6

nosocomial infections

Answer 6

spread in health care facility

Question 7

pathogenicity

Answer 7

capacity of microbes to cause disease

Question 8

virulence

Answer 8

degree of pathogenicity of a specific microbe

how invasive is it
how toxic
ability to adhere to cells/tissues
ability to avoid host defenses/mutate

Question 9

super infections/superbugs

Answer 9

multidrug resistant forms of existing diseases

Question 10

stages of infection

Answer 10

incubation
prodromal
acute
convalescent
resolution

Question 11

incubation

Answer 11

time between entry of organism and signs of infection

microbe begins to colonize and reproduce

Question 12

prodromal

Answer 12

S&S appear, usually vague

Question 13

acute

Answer 13

full development of infection, clinical manifestations peak

Question 14

convalescent

Answer 14

end of acute phase, signs subside and body begins to return to normal state

Question 15

resolution

Answer 15

back to normal state

Question 16

local

Answer 16

confined to specific area

Question 17

focal

Answer 17

spreads from local to many sites and other tissues

Question 18

systemic

Answer 18

spreads to many sites and tissues

Question 19

mixed

Answer 19

several pathogens establishing at same site

Question 20

acute (pattern of infection)

Answer 20

rapid appearance, severe s&s, short course

Question 21

chronic

Answer 21

low grade s&s, persist longer

Question 22

primary

Answer 22

initial infection caused by initial pathogen

Question 23

secondary

Answer 23

follows primary, caused by microbe other than primary

Question 24

subclinical/subacute

Answer 24

no s&s but persists for long periods of time

Question 25

local symptomology

Answer 25

pain/tenderness, swelling, redness, warmth, local lymph involvement

Question 26

systemic symptomolgy

Answer 26

fever, leukocytosis, fatigue, HA, chills, arthralgia, confusion, seizures, coma