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CCP 5 - Pharmaceutical Microbiology & Parasitology (Lec) > PRELIM 05 - Principles of Disease and Epidemiology > Flashcards

PRELIM 05 - Principles of Disease and Epidemiology Flashcards

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Studies the cause of disease

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Etiology

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The scientific study of disease

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Pathology

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The manner in which disease develops

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Pathogenesis

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Refers to the disease-causing microorganism

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Pathogen

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Invasion or colonization of the body by pathogenic microorganisms

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Infection

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Any change from a state of health due to infection

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Disease

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Subjective changes not apparent to an observer

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Symptoms

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Objective changes the physician can observe and measure

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Signs

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A specific group of symptoms or signs that may always accompany a particular disease

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Syndrome

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Microorganisms that establish more or less permanent residence but that do not produce disease under normal conditions

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Normal microbiota

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Ordinarily do not cause disease in their normal habitat in a healthy person but may do so in a different environment

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Opportunistic pathogen

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Scientist that demonstrated that Bacillus anthracis was always present in the blood of animals that had the disease (anthrax) and not in healthy animals; he did the same for Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Robert Koch

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Other name for Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Koch’s bacillus

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Type of disease that spreads from one host to another

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Communicable disease

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Type of disease that is easily communicable

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Contagious disease

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Type of disease that does not spread from one host to another

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Noncommunicable disease

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Disease that is occasional and irregular occurence

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Sporadic

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Disease that is constantly present in a population

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Endemic

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Disease that is persistent and has high levels of occurence

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Hyperendemic

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An epidemic that has spread over several countries or continents

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Pandemic

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An increase, often sudden, in the number of cases of a disease above what is normally expected

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Epidemic

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Disease where the causative agent remains inactive for a time but then becomes active to produce symptoms of the disease

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Latent disease

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Disease that develops rapidly but lasts only a short time

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Acute disease

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Disease that is an intermediate between acute and chronic

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Subacute disease

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Disease that develops more slowly, may be less severe, but likely to continue or recur for long periods

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Chronic disease

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Infection where the invading microorganisms are limited to a relatively small body area

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Local infection

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Infection where the agents of local infection enter a blood/lymphatic vessel and spread to other body parts, where they are confined to specific areas

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Focal infection

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Infection where microorganisms or their products are spread throughout the body by the blood/lymph

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Systemic infection

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Systemic infection from the multiplication of pathogens or spread of toxins in the blood

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Septicemia/Blood poisoning

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3 types of septicemia

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Bacteremia, Toxemia, Viremia

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Toxic inflammatory reaction to septicemia that can lead to tissue damage and death

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Sepsis

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Infection which is a result of the pathogen’s present or activity within the normal, healthy host, and their intrinsic virulence

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Primary infection

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Infection caused by an opportunistic pathogen in a host with depressed resistance or if they have unusual access to the inside of the body

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Secondary/Opportunistic infection

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Infection where there is no noticeable illness

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Subclinical infection

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5 stages of development of disease

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Incubation period, Prodromal period, Period of illness, Period of decline, Period of convalescence

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Interval between initial infection and first appearance of any signs or symptoms (Stages of development of disease)

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Incubation period

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Relatively short period that follows the period of incubation in some diseases (Stages of development of disease)

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Prodromal period

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Most severe; overt signs and symptoms (Stages of development of disease)

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Period of illness

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Signs and symptoms subside; vulnerable to secondary infections (Stages of development of disease)

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Period of decline

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Body returns to pre-diseased state (Stages of development of disease)

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Period of convalescence

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Refers to continual sources of pathogen; provides pathogen with adequate conditions for survival and multiplication

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Reservoirs of infection

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3 types of reservoirs of infection

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Human, Animal, Nonliving

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Transmission through physical contact (Type of contact transmission)

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Direct contact

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Transmission through an intermediate nonliving object, known as a fomite (Type of contact transmission)

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Indirect contact

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Transmission through droplet nuclei that travel only short distances (Type of contact transmission)

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Droplet transmission

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Transmission through spread by contaminated water (Type of vehicle transmission)

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Waterborne transmission

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Transmission through contaminated food (Type of vehicle transmission)

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Foodborne transmission

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Transmission through droplet nuclei that travel long distances (Type of vehicle transmission)

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Airborne transmission

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Transmission through passive transport (Type of vector transmission)

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Mechanical transmission

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Transmission where pathogen reproduces in the vector; part of life cycle in the vector (Type of vector transmission)

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Biological transmission

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Infections acquired while receiving treatment in healthcare settings

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Healthcare-associated infections

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Refers to hospital-acquired infections

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Nosocomial infections

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Is the leading cause of HAIs

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Clostridium difficile

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Host whose resistance to infection is impaired by disease, therapy, or burns

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Compromised host

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Are precautions employed to reduce the transmission of microbes in health care and residential settings

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Universal precautions

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Precautions that are basic, minimum practices designed to prevent transmission of pathogens from one person to another

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Standard precautions

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Precautions that are procedures designed to supplement standard precautions in individuals with known or suspected infections that are highly transmissible

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Transmission-based precautions

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Is the single most important means of preventing the spread of infection

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Handwashing

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Refers to diseases that are new or changing, and shows an increase in incidence in the recent past

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Emerging infectious diseases

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The use of pathogens or toxins to produce death and disease in humans, animals, or plants as an act of violence and intimidation

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Bioterrorism

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The science that studies when and where diseases occur and how they are transmitted in populations

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Epidemiology

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A British physician who is the father of modern epidemiology and conducted a series of investigations related to outbreaks of cholera in London

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John Snow

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He recorded the number of births and maternal deaths at Vienna General Hospital from 1846 and 1848

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Ignaz Semmelweiss

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A nosocomial infection that begins in the uterus as a result of childbirth or abortion

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Puerperal sepsis/Childbirth fever

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Puerperal sepsis is frequently caused by __________

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Streptococcus pyogenes

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3 types of epidemiologic investigations

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Descriptive epidemiology, Analytical epidemiology, Experimental epidemiology

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Collecting all data that describe the occurrence of the disease under study (Type of epidemiologic investigations)

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Descriptive epidemiology

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Analyzes a particular disease to determine its probable cause (Type of epidemiologic investigations)

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Analytical epidemiology

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2 types of analytical epidemiology

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Case control method (Retrospective), Cohort method (Prospective)

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A group of people with the disease is compared to a group of people without the disease in terms of how many are exposed to the agent (Type of analytical epidemiology)

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Case control method (Retrospective)

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A cohort group with exposure to the agent is compared to a cohort group without exposure to the agent in terms of how many develop the disease (Type of analytical epidemiology)

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Cohort method (Prospective)

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Begins with a hypothesis about a particular disease (Type of epidemiologic investigations)

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Experimental epidemiology

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Testing on humans is called a __________

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Clinical trial

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Clinical trials include a __________ and __________

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Test group, Control group

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The number of causes of a specific disease

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Morbidity

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The number of people affected by a disease in a given period of time in relation to the total population

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Morbidity rate

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The number of deaths from these diseases

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Mortality

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The number of deaths resulting from a disease in a population in a given period of time in relation to the total population

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Mortality rate

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The number of people in a population who develop the disease during a particular time period

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Incidence

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The number of people in a population who have the disease at a specified time, regardless of when it was first appeared

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Prevalence

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Prevention of overgrowth of harmful microorganisms by normal microbiota

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Microbial antagonism/Competitive exclusion

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3 types of symbiosis

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Mutalism, Commensalism, Parasitism

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Vitamin produced by E. coli

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Vitamin K

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Diseases that occur primarily in animals and can be transmitted to humans

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Zoonoses/Zoonotic disease

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Promoted the practice of handwashing to prevent puerperal fever

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Ignaz Semmelweis

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