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Infection, Infectious Diseases, And Epidemiology Flashcards

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What type of microbiota in the body remain their for a person’s entire life?

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Resident microbiota

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What are the normal microorganisms found in our body that do not cause disease called?

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Normal flora or indigenous microbiota

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What type of microbiota remain in the body for a limited amount of time before disappearing?

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Transient microbiota

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What locations in the body are axenic?

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Alveoli of lungs, CNS, circulatory system, upper urogenital regions, uterus

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What does axenic mean?

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Sites that are free of any microbes that are never colonized by flora

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When does acquisition of normal microbiota occur?

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Shortly after birth

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What are opportunistic pathogens?

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Normal microbiota that can cause disease under certain circumstances

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What are the certain circumstances that could trigger normal microbiota to cause disease?

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Introduction of normal microbiota into unusual site in the body, immune suppression, changes in the normal microbiota

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What are the three types of potential reservoirs of infection for pathogens to live for protection?

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Animal, human carriers, nonliving reservoirs

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What is a reservoir of infection?

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A location where a pathogen is likely to be found to live before they infect a new host

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What are zoonoses?

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Diseases naturally spread from animal host to humans

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How can we acquire zoonoses?

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Direct contact with animal or its waste, eating animals, bloodsucking arthropods

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Who is usually considered to be a “dead-end host” and why?

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Humans are more likely to get diseases from animals and the reverse is very unlikely

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What is the reservoir for malaria?

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Monkeys

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What is the reservoir for toxoplasmosis?

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Cat

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What is the reservoir for anthrax?

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Livestock

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What is the reservoir for the bubonic plague?

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Rodents

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What is the reservoir for Lyme disease?

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Deer

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What is the reservoir for rabies?

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Multiple but #1 involved with humans is bats

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What is the reservoir for yellow fever?

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Monkeys

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What strategy is used to separate ill persons who have a communicable disease?

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Isolation

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What strategy is used to separate and restrict well persons who may have been exposed to a communicable disease?

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Quarantine

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How do microbes usually get to locations of nonliving reservoirs?

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Contamination by feces or urine

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Soil, food, and water are examples of what kind of reservoir?

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Nonliving

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What is contamination?

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The mere presence of microbes in or on the body

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What is actual infection?

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When an organism becomes established in the body that may or may not result in disease

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What are the three main pathways used by pathogens to enter the body?

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Skin, mucous membranes, placenta

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What is the term for a route that isn’t technically a portal of entry but a way to circumvent the usual portals of entry?

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Parenteral route

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What are the portal entries of the skin?

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1 openings or cuts
2 hair follicles or sweat glands
3 things that can actually burrow their way into the skin

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What must a pathogen be able to withstand when using the GI tract as route of entry?

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Must survive the acidic pH of the stomach

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What is the most common route of entry for pathogens?

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Respiratory tract (nose, mouth, and eyes)

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How may pathogens infect a fetus?

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By crossing the placenta

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What type of protozoan can cross the placenta?

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Toxoplasma gondii (toxoplasmosis in humans)

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What types of bacteria are known to be able to cross the placenta to harm the fetus?

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Treponema pallidum (syphilis in humans) and listeria monocytogenes (listeriosis in humans)

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What DNA viruses are known to be able to cross the placenta to harm a fetus?

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Cytomegalovirus (asymptomatic in adults), parvovirus B19 (erythema infectiosum)

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What RNA viruses are known to cross the placenta to harm a fetus?

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Lentivirus (HIV AIDS) and rubivirus (German measles)

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What is the difference between infection and disease?

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Disease is technically the result of the infection if it alters normal body functions (also known as morbidity)

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What is pathogenicity?

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Ability of a microorganism to CAUSE a disease

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What is virulence?

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Degree of pathogenicity and how easy it is for the organism to cause disease

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What is antigenicity?

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The ability of a substance to stimulate the production of antibodies or cell-mediated immune responses

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Do pathogenicity and virulence refer to the severity of the disease?

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No (example: you can be extremely virulent but only cause a minor condition)

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Which is subjective: signs of symptoms?

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Which is objective: signs or symptoms?

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What is a group of symptoms and signs that characterize a disease or abnormal condition?

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What are subjective characteristics of disease felt by only the patient?

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What are objective manifestations of disease observed or measured by others?

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Definition of -emia

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Pertaining to blood

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Definition of -gen or gen-

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Give rise to

48
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Definition of idio-

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Definition of septi-

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Rotting (refers to presence of pathogens)

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Definition of -osis

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Condition of

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Definition of terato-

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Definition of tox-

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What is necessary for infectious agents to establish colonies after entering the body?

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They must adhere to cells

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What are extracellular enzymes?

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Those secreted by the pathogen

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What is the function of extracellular enzymes?

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Helps pathogen maintain, invade, and avoid the body’s defenses

56
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Cytotoxins, neurotoxins, and enterotoxins are examples of what kind of toxins?

57
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Lipid A is an example of what kind of toxin?

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What is the function of toxins of infectious agents?

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Harm tissues or trigger host immune responses that cause damage

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What is the function of leukocidins?

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Prevents the white blood cells from being able to digest the infectious agent and can even destroy them

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What are the stages of infectious disease in order?

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Incubation period, prodromal period, illness, decline, convalescence

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When is the incubation period of infectious disease?

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Between infection and first symptoms or signs

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What is the prodromal period of infectious disease?

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Short period of generalized, mild symptoms

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What is the most serious stage of infectious disease?

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What is the illness stage of infectious disease?

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When signs and symptoms are most evident

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What is the decline stage of infectious disease?

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Immune response/treatment vanquish pathogens, body slowly returns to normal

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What is the convalescence stage of infectious disease?

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Patient recovers from illness tissues repaired and returned to normal

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How can pathogens leave the host?

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Bodily secretions, blood, vaginal secretions or semen, breast milk, bodily wastes

68
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What are the five groups of transmission of infectious agents?

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Contact, vehicle, vector, airborne, and perinatal

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What is the term for an inanimate object involved in indirect transmission of infectious agents?

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What mode of transmission of infectious agents involves a non-living middle man?

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Vehicle transmission

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Which mode of transmission of infectious agents involves a living middle man?

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Vector transmission (can be mechanical or biological)

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Waterborne, foodborne, or fecal-oral body fluids represent what kind of mode of transmission for infectious agents?

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Vehicle transmission

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What kind of mode of transmission of infectious agents by an arachnid or insect being a middle man?

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Vector transmission

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Mom to baby transmission is what kind?

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What kind of vector in transmission only carries the pathogen?

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Mechanical

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What kind of vector in transmission serves as the host for the pathogen, as well?

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Biological

77
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Ticks and mites are what kind of arthropod?

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Fleas and lice are what kind of arthropods?

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How many pairs of legs do arthropods have?

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How many pairs of legs do insects have?

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Insects (along with three body regions)

81
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What is the most important arachnid vector?

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Are spiders arachnid vectors?

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No; they do not transmit pathogens

83
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What is the most important and most common insect vector?

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Mosquitos (most important vector overall, too)

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What is the term for the number of new cases of a disease in a given area during a given period of time?

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What is the term for the number of total cases of a disease in a given area during a given period of time?

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Prevalence

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What is the term for a disease that normally occurs at regular intervals with stable incidence within a given population or geographical area?

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What is the term for only a few scattered cases within an area of population?

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What is the term for when a disease occurs at a greater frequency than is usual for an area or population?

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What is the term for an epidemic that occurs simultaneously on more than one continent?

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What is an index case?

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The first victim/case of a particular outbreak of an infectious disease

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What is involved with a careful tabulation of data concerning a disease?

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Recording of location and time of the cases of disease along with patient information

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What is a nosocomial infection?

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An infection acquired in health-care settings (patients or employees)

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What are the three subcategories of nosocomial infections?

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Exogenous, endogenous, iatrogenic

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What kind of nosocomial infection results from a modern medical procedure?

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Iatrogenic

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What kind of nosocomial infection involves a pathogen arising from normal microbiota due to factors in the health care setting?

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Endogenous

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What kind of nosocomial infection involves the pathogen being acquired from the health care environment?

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What is the most effective way to reduce nosocomial infections?

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Hand washing

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What is used to treat staph aureus?

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Vancomycin

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