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Principles Of Disease And Epidemiology Flashcards

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Pathology

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the study of disease

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Etiology

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the study of the cause of a disease

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pathogenesis

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the development of a disease

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infection

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colonization of the body by pathogens

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disease

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an abnormal state in which the body is not functioning normally

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transient microbiota

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may be present for days, weeks, or months

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normal microbiota

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permanently colonize the host

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symbiosis means

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living together. It is the relationship between normal microbiota and the host.

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in symbiosis, what is commensalism?

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one organism benefits, and the other is unaffected.

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mutualism

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both organisms benefit

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Parasitism

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one organism benefits at the expense of the other

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Some normal microbiota are

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opportunistic pathogens

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Microbial antagonism

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is a competition between microbes

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Normal microbiota protect the host by

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Occupying niches that pathogens might occupy
Producing acids
Producing bacteriocins

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Probiotics:

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live microbes applied to or ingested into the body, intended to exert a beneficial effect

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Koch’s postulates (1st step out of 4?)

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  1. The same pathogen must be PRESENT in every case of the disease.
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Koch’s postulates (2nd step out of 4?)

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  1. The pathogen must be ISOLATED from the diseased host and grown in pure culture.
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Koch’s postulates (3rd step out of 4?)

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  1. The pathogen from the pure culture must cause the disease when it is inoculated into a healthy, susceptible laboratory animal.
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Koch’s postulates (4th step out of 4?)

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  1. The pathogen must be isolated from the inoculated animal and must be shown to be the original organism.
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Koch’s postulates are used to prove the cause of

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An infectious disease

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In Koch’s postulates

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Some pathogens can cause several disease conditions and can cause disease only in humans

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Symptom:

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a change in body function that is felt by a patient as a result of disease
Ex: nausea, dizziness, backache

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Sign

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A change in a body that can be measured or observed as a result of disease
Ex: fever, rash

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Syndrome

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a specific group of signs and symptoms that accompany a disease
Ex: aids

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Communicable disease:

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A disease that is spread from one host to another

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Contagious disease:

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a disease that is easily spread from one host to another

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Noncommunicable disease:

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a disease that is not transmitted from one host to another

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Incidence:

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fraction of a population that contracts a disease during a specific time

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Prevalence:

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fraction of a population having a specific disease at a given time

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Sporadic disease

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disease that occurs occasionally in a population

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Endemic disease

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disease constantly present in a population

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Epidemic disease

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disease acquired by many hosts in a given area in a short time

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Pandemic disease

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Worldwide epidemic

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Acute disease

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Symptoms develop rapidly

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Chronic disease

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disease develops slowly

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Subacute disease:

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Symptoms between acute and chronic

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Latent disease

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Disease with a period of no symptoms when the causative agent is inactive

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Herd immunity

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Immunity in most of a population

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Four links in the chain of infection

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  1. Host
  2. Etiologic agent (microbe causing the disease)
    -virulence] = pathogenicity
    -location ] = pathogenicity
  3. Reservoir: area of where a pathogen can hang out until it can infect
  4. Mode of transmission
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Local infection:

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pathogens are 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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Sepsis:

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toxic inflammatory condition arising from the spread of microbes, especially bacteria or their toxins, from a focus of 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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(Infection you started with) acute infection that causes the 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 (inapparent infection): a human carrier

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Predisposing factors:

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Anything that makes patient more susceptible to disease

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Predisposing factors make the body more susceptible to

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Disease
Ex: Short urethra in females, Inherited traits, such as the sickle cell gene, Climate and weather, Fatigue, Age, Lifestyle, Chemotherapy

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Period of convalescence

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Immune is trying to recover and build again

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Reservoirs of infection (outside the host ex: carriers, humans)

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Continual sources of infection
Human: AIDS, gonorrhea
Carriers may have inapparent infections or latent diseases
Animal: rabies, Lyme disease
Some zoonoses may be transmitted to humans
Nonliving: botulism, tetanus
-Soil

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Transmission of disease:

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Contact
Indirect: spread by fomites (inanimate object that can spread disease (ex: pens and pencils that everyone touches
Droplet: transmission via airborne droplets
Direct: requires close association between an infected and susceptible host

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Vehicle transmission

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Transmission by an inanimate reservoir (food, water, air)

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Vectors:living vehicles

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Arthropods, especially fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes
Transmit disease by two general methods:
1. Mechanical transmission: arthropod carries pathogen on feet ex:flies and roaches
2. Biological transmission: pathogen reproduces in vector (take in pathogens through its body and has to transmit it) ex:ticks, mites, mosquitoes

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Nosocomial infections (HAI)=hospital acquired infections

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Are acquired as a result of a hospital stay
Affect 5–15% of all hospital patients

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Emerging infectious diseases

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

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Contributing factors to emerging infectious diseases:

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Antigenic shift

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2 or more virus enters host during assembly, they get a mixture of spikes

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Epidemiology

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The study of where and when diseases occur

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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 diseases

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Morbidity rate:

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

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Mortality rate :

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number of deaths from a disease in relation to the population in a given time

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John snow 1848-1849

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Mapped the occurrence of cholera in London

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Ignaz Semmelweis 1846-1848

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Showed that handwashing decreased the incidence of puerperal fever

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Florence nightingale 1858

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Showed that improved sanitation decreased the incidence of epidemic typhus (cleaned out wounds/changed bandages)

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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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