Module 22 - Infections and their Causative Agent

Question 1

Mention the 5 types of infectious agents of humans.

Answer 1

Question 2

Mention the drivers of EID (Emerging Infectious Diseases) events.

Answer 2

• Microbrial Adaptations
• Ecological changes
• Population growth and density
• Technology and Industry
• Failures in public health measures

Question 3

How can we control infectious diseases?

Answer 3

• Improving housing, sanitation, education
• surveillance - monitoring pattern and emergence
• Drug therapy
  
  • antibiotics
  • antiviral drugs
  • anti-parasitic drugs
    *

Question 4

Describe some anti-infection strategies.

Answer 4

Develop a better understanding of the host-pathogen relationship essential for:

• new and effective antimicrobials
• new and better vaccines
• development of novel ways to blockade interactions between pathogens and their hosts
• understanding how pathogens manipulate the host -treatments for other diseases
  *

Question 5

Global morbidity and mortality from cureent and emerging infectious diseases are linked to _____________.

Answer 5

Socio-economic factors

Question 6

EID events associated with drug resistant pathogens more correlated to _____________.

EID events associated with zoonotic pathogens correlated with ____________.

Answer 6

socio-economic conditions, wild-life biodiversity.