LAB Quiz 1-2 Flashcards
Habitat where the infectious agent lives, grows, multiplies
Can be humans, animals, or the environment
Examples: Sick people or animals, contaminated water, healthy people or animals (carriers)
- Reservoir
- mode of transmission
- Fomites
- Vector
a. Reservoir
Ingestion, inhalation of aerosolized agents, direct skin contact, open wounds, animal bites, blood-to-blood contact, sexual contact
- Reservoir
- mode of transmission
- Fomites
- Vector
mode of transmission
contaminated objects; any inanimate object that can carry a disease-causing organism
- Reservoir
- mode of transmission
- Fomites
- Vector
Fomites
any living organism that transmits a disease to humans. Example: biting insects (mosquitoes transmitting malaria).
- Reservoir
- mode of transmission
- Fomites
- Vector
Vector
In order to transmit an infection disease a ____ is needed with a port of entry
- susceptible host
- Index case
- Common source epidemic
- Propagated transmission
susceptible host
•first case of a disease
- susceptible host
- Index case
- Common source epidemic
- Propagated transmission
Index case
- Disease is transmitted from a location (building, contaminated water)
- Can infect many people at once
- susceptible host
- Index case
- Common source epidemic
- Propagated transmission
c. Common source epidemic
- Disease is transmitted from person to person
- Infects only one or a few people at a time
- susceptible host
- Index case
- Common source epidemic
- Propagated transmission
d. Propagated transmission
(this is a rate)
- Incidence
- Prevalence
Incidence
- Number of new cases of a disease reported in a defined population during a specific time period
- Speed at which new cases of disease occur in a population
- Calculated by dividing the number of new cases by the size of the population at the midpoint of the time period
- Incidence
- Prevalence
Incidence
•Number of new cases of a disease reported in a defined population during a specific time period
- Incidence
- Prevalence
Incidence
On May 1, 2017, 32 microbiology students at SPC had Lyme disease. During the month of May, 60 more microbiology students were diagnosed with Lyme disease. The population of SPC microbiology students throughout May was 240
What is this an example of?
- Incidence
- Prevalence
Incidence
(this is a ratio)
- Incidence
- Prevalence
Prevalence
•Number of cases of a disease at a specific point in time in a defined population
- Incidence
- Prevalence
Prevalence
•Calculated by dividing number of existing cases at a given time point by the size of the population
- Incidence
- Prevalence
Prevalence