TERMS USED TO CLASSIFY INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Question 1

Disease in which symptoms develop rapidly and that runs its course quickly.

Answer 1

Acute disease (common cold)

Question 2

Disease with usually mild symptoms that develop slowly and last a long time.

Answer 2

Chronic disease

Question 3

Disease with time course and symptoms between acute and chronic

Answer 3

Subacute disease

Question 4

Disease without symptoms

Answer 4

Asyptomatic disease

Question 5

Disease that appears a long time after infection

Answer 5

latent disease

Question 6

Disease transmitted from one host to another

Answer 6

Communicable disease

Question 7

Communicable disease that is easily spread

Answer 7

Contagious disease

Question 8

Disease arising from outside hosts or disease from opportunistic pathogen

Answer 8

Noncommunicable disease

Question 9

Infection confined to a small region of the body

Answer 9

Local infection

Question 10

Widespread infection in many systems of the body; often travels in the blood or lymph

Answer 10

Systemic infection

Question 11

Infection that serves as a source of pathogens for infections at other sites in the body

Answer 11

Focal infection

Question 12

Initial infection within a given patient

Answer 12

Primary infection

Question 13

Infections that follow a primary infection; often by opportunistic pathogens

Answer 13

Secondary infection