Introduction

Question 1

Definition of the infection

Answer 1

It is the entry and development or multiplication of an infectious agent in the host

Question 2

Definition of Disease agent

Answer 2

It is a living or non-living substance which may initiate a disease process under certa8n circumstances

Question 3

Communicable disease

Answer 3

An illness due to a specific infectious agent or its toxic products capable of being directly or indirectly transmitted from man to man, animal to man or from environment

Question 4

Infectious disease (ID)

Answer 4

Clinically manifest disease of man resulting from infection

Question 5

Contagious disease

Answer 5

It is the disease transmission through direct contact as scabies, STD, Leprosy.

Question 6

All infectious diseases are communicable.
T or F?

Answer 6

F:
All communicable disease are infectious, not all infectious are communicable

Question 7

Infestation

Answer 7

Presence of parasites on the body surface or lumen of the gut
Eg: lice, itch mite ….ascariasis.

Question 8

Contamination

Answer 8

Inanimate objects used by patients (water, food, or fomites)

Question 9

Droplet infection

Answer 9

Direct protection of a spray of droplets of saliva and naso-pharyngeal secretions during coughing, sneezing or even speaking.

Question 10

Opportunistic infection

Answer 10

It is an infection by organism that takes the opportunity provided by a defect in the host defense mechanism as AIDS, CMV, TB.

Question 11

Nosocomial infection

Answer 11

It is an infection affecting patients while in a hospital or other health care facility as UTI, HBV, infection of surgical wounds.