Practical Disease

Question 1

What is disease?

Answer 1

is an interruption, cessation, or disorder of any body function, system or organ

Question 2

acute disease

Answer 2

short period of sickness, sudden onset, severe

Question 3

chronic disease

Answer 3

re- occurring symptoms, slower onset, managed rather than curing

Question 4

communicabilty

Answer 4

ability of a disease to be transmitted from one person to another or spread through the population

Question 5

latency

Answer 5

chronic disease, non communicable

Question 6

epi triad

Answer 6

host, vector, environmental, agent

Question 7

pathogens

Answer 7

organisms or substances such as bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites that are capable of producing disease

Question 8

viability

Answer 8

capacity of the pathogen or disease-causing agent to survive outside the host and to exist or thrive in environment

Question 9

major stages of disease process

Answer 9

1) stages of susceptibility
2) stage of pre-symptomatic disease
3) stage of clinical disease
4) stage of recovery, disability or death

Question 10

incubation period

Answer 10

communicable disease, acute

Question 11

Cycle of infection

Answer 11

infected host, portal of exit, mode of transmission, portal of entry, susceptible host

Question 12

Vehicles

Answer 12

transmission via medium, air, food, water, blood

Question 13

vectors

Answer 13

organisms that carry disease, mosquitos

Question 14

fomites

Answer 14

inanimate objects

Question 15

direct contact (person-person)

Answer 15

skin, saliva, aerosol, sexual contact

Question 16

vertical transmission

Answer 16

mother to child, placenta, during pregnancy

Question 17

Active immunity

Answer 17

body produces own antibodies, through vaccine or natural exposure

Question 18

passive immunity

Answer 18

acquired through transplacental transfer of a mother immunity