Terms

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Person or animal that harbors the infectious agent/disease and can transmit it to others but does not demonstrate signs of the disease

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Carrier

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Exposure to a source of infection; a person who has been exposed.
This does not imply infection, but rather the possibility of infection

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Contact

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Capable of being transmitted fro person to person by contact or proximity. Does not utilize a vector

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Contagious

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An organism that harbors a parasitic, mutualistic, or commensalism guest.

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Host

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An organism that lives on or in a host organism and gets its food from or at the expense of its host.

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Parasite

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Three main classes of human parasites?

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Protozoa, helminths, and ectoparasites

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An infectious agent or organism that can produce disease

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pathogen

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Invasion of the body tissues of a host by an infectious agent, regardless if it causes disease or not

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Infection

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A pathway into the host that gives an agent access to tissue that will allow it to multiply or act

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Portal of entry

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A population of organisms or the specific environment in which an infectious pathogen naturally lives and reproduces; usually a living host of a certain species

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Reservoir

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A pathogen that is transmissible from non-human animals (typically vertebrates) to humans

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Zoonosis

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

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Epidemic

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Carries the same definition of epidemic but is often more limited in geographic area

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Outbreak

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The constant presence of an agent or health condition within a given geographic area or population

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endemic

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An epidemic occurring over a widespread area (multiple countries or continents) and usually affecting a substantial proportion of the population

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Pandemic

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Any of a group of viruses that are transmitted between hosts by mosquitoes, ticks, and other arthropods

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Arbovirus

Malaria, Dengue Fever, West Nile Virus, Lyme disease, Rocky mountain spotted fever

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Resistance developed in response to an antigen (pathogen or vaccine) characterized by the presence of an antibody produced by the host

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Active Immunity

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When a majority of a given group is resistant/immune to a pathogen

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Herd immunity

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Transfer of active humoral immunity to ready-made antibodies produced by another host or synthesized

SHORT TERM
Rabies, tetanus, Crofab

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Passive Immunity

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Time interval from a person being infected to the onset of symptoms of an infectious disease

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Incubation period

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Time interval from a person being infected to the time of infectiousness of an infectious disease

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Latency period

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An infection that is nearly or completely asymptomatic. An asymptomatic carrier of the infection

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Subclinical infection

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A combination of symptoms, characteristics of a disease, or health condition; sometimes refers to a health condition without a clear cause

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Syndrome

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Measure of death in a defined population during a specific time interval, from a defined cause

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Mortality Rate

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Transmission occurs between an infected person and a susceptible person via direct physical contact with blood or body fluids

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Direct contact

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Transmission occurs when there is no direct human-to-human contact.

Vehicle Borne - contaminated surface

Vector Borne - mosquitos, tics, rodent,

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Indirect contact

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Often indicates the onset of a disease before more diagnostically specific signs and symptoms develop

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Prodrome