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Chapter Fourteen Flashcards

1
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Ethology

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Cause of disease

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Pathogenesis

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Manner in which disease develops

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Microbial antagonism

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Normal microbiota benefits the hosts by preventing overgrowth of harmful microorganisms

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Symbiosis

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Relationship between two organisms in which one organism is dependant on the other

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Commensalism

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One organism benefits the other is unaffected

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Mutualism

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Both organisms benefits

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Parasitism

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One organism benefits at the expense of another

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Symptoms

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-changes in the body function
-pain and malaise
-subjective

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Signs

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-objective
-observable and measurable

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Syndrome

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The specific cgorup of symptoms or signs that accompany a certain disease

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Communicable disease

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Disease where infected person transmits an infectious agent
-direct or indirect

Example- chickenpox, measles, influenza

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Contagious diseases

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Disease that are VERY communicable
-easy and rapid spreading

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Noncommunicable disease

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That is not spread from one host to another
-C.tetani (wounds)

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Incidence of a disease

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

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Prevalence of a disease

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Number of people in population who develop a disease in a specific time
-doesn’t matter when first appeared

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Prevalence takes into account

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Both old and new cases
-shows seriousness/length of diseases affecting population

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Incidence indicates

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Spread of the disease

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Endemic disease

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A disease constantly present in a population

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Epidemic disease

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Many people in given area acquire disease in a short period of time

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Pandemic disease

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An epidemic disease that occurs worldwide

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Systemic infection

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Spread throughout body via blood or lymph
-measles

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Focal infection

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Confined to specific areas of the body

23
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Sepsis

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Toxic inflammatory condition due to spread of microbes
-from focus infection

24
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Septicaemia

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Blood poisioning
-due to multiplication of pathogens in blood
-example of sepsis

25
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Bacteremia

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Bacteria in blood

26
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Toxemia

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Toxins in the blood

27
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Viremia

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Prescience of viruses in the blood

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Incubation period

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Between initial infection and first appearance of signs or symptoms

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Prodromal period

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Short period following incubation
-early mild symptoms
-cold like symptoms

30
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Period of illness

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Most severe point of disease
-overt s/s

31
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Period of decline

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S/s subside
-vulnerable to secondary infections

32
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Period of convalesce

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Regains strength
-recovery has occurred

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