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Principles of Disease and Epidemiology Flashcards

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Nosocomial Disease

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can also be called a HAI a disease that is contracted in a healthcare facility.

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Pathology

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Study of disease

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Pathogen

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Pathogenic agents have special properties that allow them to invade the human body or produce toxins

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Etiology

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the study of the cause of a disease

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Infection

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invasion and growth of pathogens in the body

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Disease

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Abnormal state in which the body is not functioning normally.
ex. infectious agent overcomes body’s defenses

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Pathogenesis

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The development of disease

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What is the protective role of normal microbiota?

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  • Prevent pathogens from attaching
  • Consume available nutrients
  • Produce toxic compounds that inhibit other microbes
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Microbial Antagonism

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  • When established cultures of microorganisms prevent the intrusion of foreign strains. When introduced to an already-colonized environment, an invasive strain of bacteria tends not to thrive and may go completely extinct.
  • Microbial antagonism is due to competition between microbes.
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Resident flora

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  • Normal microbiota (acquired at passage through birth canal)
  • Establish permanent colonies on/inside body without producing disease. Protect the host by
    1. Occupying niches that pathogens might occupy (Competitive exclusion)
    2. Producing acids
    3. Producing bacteriocins
    4. Stimulation of immune system
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Transient Microbiota (Flora

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Certain microbes are present for various periods (days, weeks, or months) – then disappears.

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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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Describe the dynamic nature of resident flora

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changes due to age, type of food consumed, Hormonal state, antibiotics

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Various Co-existance (symbiotic) Relationships Between Bacteria and Host

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  1. Commensalism
  2. Mutualism
  3. Parasitism
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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 another

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Symbiosis

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relationship between 2 organisms in which at least one organism is dependent on the other

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Opportunistic pathogens

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cause disease under special conditions (mutualistic relationship becomes parasitic)

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Healthy carriers of pathogenic organisms

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An asymptomatic carrier (healthy carrier or just carrier) is a person or other organism that has contracted an infectious disease, but who displays no symptoms. Although unaffected by the disease themselves, carriers can transmit it to others.

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How do microbes cooperate with each other?

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One microorganism may make it possible for another to cause disease or produce more severe symptoms

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Koch’s Postulates

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provide proof of etiology of infectious disease

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What are Koch’s postulates?

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  1. The same pathogen must be present in every case of the disease
  2. The pathogen must be isolated from the diseased host and grown in pure culture
  3. The pathogen from the pure culture must cause the disease when it is inoculated into a healthy, susceptible lab animal
  4. The pathogen must be isolated from the inoculated animal and must be shown to be the original microbe
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Key concepts of Koch’s postulates

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  • according to koch’s postulates, a specific infectious disease is caused by a specific microbe
  • Koch’s postulates help determine the etiology of disease, the first step in treatment and prevention
  • Microbiologists use these steps to identify the causes of emerging diseases
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What are the exceptions to Koch’s postulates?

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These exceptions made it necessary to modify Koch’s postulates:

  1. to establish disease etiology for viruses and certain bacteria, which cannot be grown on artificial media
  2. Some diseases, e.g.: pneumonia, meningitis, and nephritis, may be caused by a variety of microbes.
  3. Some pathogens, such as S. progenies, cause several different diseases.
  4. Certain pathogens, such as HIV, cause disease in humans only.
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How are infectious diseases classified?

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  • Communicable
  • Non-communicable
  • Contagious
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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. Symptoms are subjective

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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. Signs are objective

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Syndrome

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A specific group of signs and symptoms that accompany a disease

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Communicable Disease

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A disease that is spread from one host to another (genital herpes, TB)

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Non-communicable Disease

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A disease that is not transmitted from one host to another (tetanus, ulcers)

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Contagious Disease

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A disease that is easily spread from one host to another (common cold, chickenpox)

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Incidence

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Fraction of a population that contracts a disease during a specific time (new cases)

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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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How is the severity or duration of a disease described?

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  • Acute
  • Chronic
  • Subacute
  • Latent
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Acute

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Disease develops rapidly

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Chronic

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Disease develops slowly

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Subacute

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Symptoms between acute and chronic

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Latent

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Disease with a period of no symptoms when the causative agent is inactive (TB, shingles)

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Herd Immunity

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Presence of immunity to a disease in most of the population

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Local

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limited to small area of body

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Systemic

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spread throughout body via blood or lymph

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Focal

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spread from local infection to specific areas of body

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Primary

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acute infection causing initial illness

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Secondary

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occurs after host is weakened from primary infection

Opportunistic infection after a primary (predisposing) infection

ex. Taking antibiotics for a primary infection will kill beneficial bacteria in the vagina, this allows yeast cells to grow uncontrolled; this causes a yeast infection.

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Sepsis

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Toxic inflammatory condition arising from spread of microbes or their toxins, from a focus

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Bacteremia

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Bacteria in the blood

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Septicemia

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Multiplication of bacteria in the blood

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Subclinical

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(inapparent): no noticeable signs and symptoms

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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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What are some factors that vary among people that make them susceptible to disease?

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  • Genetics
  • Gender
  • Climate and weather
  • Age
  • Stress and fatigue
  • Lifestyle
  • Chemotherapy
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What are the stages of disease development?

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

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Time interval between initial infection and first appearance of signs and symptoms.

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Prodromal period

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Characterized by appearance of first mild signs and symptoms.

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Period of illness

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Disease at its height: all disease signs and symptoms apparent.

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Period of decline

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Signs and symptoms subside

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Period of convalescence

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Body returns to pre-diseased state, health is restored.

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During which stage(s) is a person contagious?

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at all the stages of illness; it depends on the statistics of the disease.

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Reservoir

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continual source of infectious agents

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What are the types of reservoirs?

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  • Nonliving: soil, contaminated water
  • Human: people with disease or asymptomatic carriers with inapparent (subclinical) infections or latent diseases
  • Animal: pathogen for some other species lives and multiplies in particular animal species.
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Zoonosis

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A type of disease that may be transmitted to humans from an infected animal.

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How can disease be transmitted?

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  • Contact Transmission
  • Airborne Transmission
  • Vehicle Transmission
  • Vector Transmission
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What are the types of contact transmission?

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  • Direct: Close association between infected and susceptible host.
  • Indirect: Spread by fomites.
  • Droplet: Transmission via large (>10 µm) airborne droplets from saliva or mucus (coughing or sneezing)
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Airborne Transmission

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Pathogens carried on water droplets (

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Vehicle Transmission

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Water, food, air

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Vector Transmission

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Arthropods carry pathogens from one host to another (mechanical transmission vs. biological transmission)

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What is the difference between mechanical transmission and biological transmission?

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  • Mechanical transmission – a vector such as a fly lands on soil or feces or trash and picks up pathogens on its feet, then deposits pathogens on food which are then swallowed by a host.
  • Biological transmission – a vector such as a mosquito bites an infected person and ingests pathogens in the blood of that person, then bites another host and injects pathogens to the new host.
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What is the difference between droplet and airborne transmission?

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when the droplet is large (>10 micrometers) and in a short distance: Droplet transmission.When the droplet is small (

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Nosocomial (Hospital-Acquired) Infections

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  • Acquired as a result of a hospital stay.
  • 5-15% of hospital patients acquire nosocomial infections.
    Aseptic techniques can prevent nosocomial infections.
  • Hospital infection control staff members are responsible for overseeing the proper cleaning, storage, and handling of equipment and supplies
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VRE

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  • Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus, or vancomycin-resistant enterococci, are bacterial strains of the genus Enterococcus that are resistant to the antibiotic vancomycin
  • Becoming more prevalent
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CRE

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  • CRE, which stands for carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, are a family of germs that are difficult to treat because they have high levels of resistance to antibiotics. Klebsiella species and Escherichia coli (E. coli) are examples of Enterobacteriaceae, a normal part of the human gut bacteria, that can become carbapenem-resistant.
  • Becoming more prevalent
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HA

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  • hospital acquired

- USA100 and USA200

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CA

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  • community acquired
  • USA300 and USA400. Affect young and healthy. Associated with contact sports, sharing towels or athletic equipment, illegal iv drugs, and living in crowded or unsanitary areas (e.g., prisons, hurricane evacuee centers)
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Emerging Infectious Diseases (EIDs)

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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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CDC, NIH, and WHO

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CDC, NIH, and WHO are responsible for surveillance and responses to emerging diseases

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Contributing factors for EIDs

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  • Genetic recombination (E. coli 0157; H5N1 avian flu)
  • Evolution of new strains (V. cholera 0139)
  • Inappropriate use of antibiotics and pesticides (Antibiotic resistant strains)
  • Changes in weather patterns (Hantavirus)
  • Modern Transportation (West Nile virus)
  • Ecological disaster, war, and expanding human settlement (Coccidioidomycosis)
  • Animal control measures (Lyme disease)
  • Public Health failure (Diphtheria)
  • Improved case reporting
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Epidemiology

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The study of where and when diseases occur (disease transmission, incidence, and frequency)

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What does the CDC do?

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  • Collects and analyzes epidemiological information in the United States
  • Publishes Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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What does the WHO do?

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Worldwide disease surveillance

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John Snow

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1848–1849; Mapped the occurrence of cholera in London

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Ignaz Semmelweis

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1846–1848; Showed that handwashing decreased the incidence of puerperal fever

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Florence Nightingale

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1858; Showed that improved sanitation decreased the incidence of epidemic typhus

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Case reporting

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Health care workers report specified diseases 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 diseases

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Morbidity rate

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Number of people affected in relation to 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 total population in a given time period.

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