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Lecture 8 Flashcards

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Local Infection

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PAthogens limited to a small area of the body

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Systemic infection

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An infection throughout the body

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Focal infection

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Systemic infection that began as a local infection

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Bacteremia

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Bacteria in the blood

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Septicemia

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Growth of bacteria in the blood

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Toxemia

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Toxins in the blood

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Viremia

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Viruses in the blood

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Primary infection

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Acute infection that causes initial illness

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Secondary infection

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Opportunistic infection after a primary (predisposing) infection

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Subclinical disease

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No noticeable signs or symptoms (no apparent infection, CARRIER)

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Incubation period

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No signs or symptoms

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Prodromal period

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Starting to develop some signs and symptoms

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Period of illness

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Experience of full fledge of disease, all signs and symptoms typical of disease, damage to body

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Death

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If immune response and/or medical treatment fails

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Period of decline

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Symptoms begin to decline, indication that body condition is improving

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Period of convalescence

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Still microbes in the body but potentially no signs or symptoms, could potentially relapse back into period of illness

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Reservoirs of infection

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Continual sources of infection. For humans, it is commonly other humans.

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Zoonoses

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If animal is carrier of disease / the reservoir of disease for humans

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Direct Contact

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Requires close association between infected and suspectible host

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Indirect contact

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Spread by fomites, inanimate objects that can transmit disease. Microbes left by another human on a surface

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Droplet contact

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Transmission via airborne droplets traveling less than 1 meter

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Vehicle transmission

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Transmission by an inanimate reservoir (food borne, waterborne, domestic water and sewage, airborne = more than 1m)

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Vector Transmission

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Arthropods (insects, crustaceans, etc) especially fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes

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Mechanical Vector transmission

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Arthropod carries pathogen on its feet

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Biological Vector Transmission

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Pathogen reproduces in vector

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Nosocomial (hospital-acquired) infections

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Acquired as a result of a hospital stay, 5-15% of all hospital patients acquire nosocomial infection

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Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID)

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Disease that are new, increasing in incidence, or showing a potential to increase in the near future

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Contributing factors to EID

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Modern transportation (west Nile virus) , ecological disaster, war, expanding human settlement, animal control measures, public health failure

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Epidemiology

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The study of where and when diseases occur

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Descriptive epidemiology

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Collection and analysis of data regarding occurrence of disease

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Analytical epidemiology

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Comparison of a diseased group and a healthy group

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Experimental epidemiology

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Study of a disease using controlled experiments

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Case reporting

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Health care workers report specified disease to local, state, and national offices

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Nationally notifiable diseases

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Physicians are required to report occurrence

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Morbidity

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Incidence of a specific notifiable disease

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Mortality

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Deaths from notifiable disease

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Morbidity rate

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Number of people affected/total population in a given time period

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Mortality rate

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Number of deaths from a disease/total population in a given time

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Attenuated vaccine

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Contains weakened microbe

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Inactivated vaccine

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Contains killed microbe

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Subunit Vaccine

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Contains fragments of the microbe that have antigenic properties

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Conjugated Vaccine

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Antigenic fragment of a microbe combined with another molecule to produce an immune response

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Recombinant Vaccine

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Contains cloned genetic material for an antigen

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Toxoid Vaccine

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Inactivated toxin used to make antibodies

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