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Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Flashcards

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Disorders caused by organisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites

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Infectious disease

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Cell damage

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Disease

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Subjective changes that are not seen by the observer

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Symptoms

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Objective changes that can be observed and measured

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Signs

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Group of signs and/or symptoms that may accompany a particular disease

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Syndromes

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The time between infection and
occurrence of the first symptoms or signs of disease.

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Incubation Period

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A short time of generalized, mild symptoms (such as malaise, muscle aches) that precedes illness. Not all infectious diseases have a this stage.

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Prodromal Period

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The most severe stage of an infectious disease. Signs and symptoms are most evident during this time. The patient’s immune system has not yet fully responded to the pathogens, and their presence is harming the body.

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Period of Illness

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The body gradually returns to normal as the patient’s immune response and/or medical treatment eliminates the pathogens. Fever and other signs and symptoms subside. Normally the immune response and its products peak during this stage.

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Period of Decline

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The patient recovers from the illness, and tissues and systems are repaired and returned to normal
body.

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Period of Convalescence

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A disease that develops rapidly but last only for a short time

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Acute Disease

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An intermediate between acute and chronic disease

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Subacute Disease

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A disease that develops more slowly but may continue for a long time period

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Chronic Disease

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A disease where the causative agent remains inactive for a moment but then becomes active

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Latent Disease

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A disease than can spread from one person to another

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Communicable Disease

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A disease that cannot spread to other hosts

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Non-communicable Disease

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Limited tp a small area of the body

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Local Infection

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Spreads through the body via blood or lymphatic system

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Systemic Infection

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An acute infection that causes the initial illness

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Primary Infection

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A disease caused by an opportunistic pathogen after the primary infection has weakened the body’s defenses

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Secondary Infection

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An infection that does not cause notable illness

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Subclinical Infection
“Inapparent infection”

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Chain of infection

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Susceptible Host
Pathogen
Reservoir
Portal of exit
Mode of Transmission
Portal of Entry

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Susceptible Host

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Elderly
Infants
Immunocompromised
ANYONE

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Pathogen

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Bacteria
Virus
Fungi
Parasite

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Reservoir
ANIMAL RESERVOIRS HUMAN CARRIERS NONLIVING RESERVOIRS
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Portal of exit
a. In secretions (ear wax, tears, nasal secretions, saliva, sputum, and respiratory droplets); b. In blood (via arthropod bites, hypodermic needles, or wounds); c. In vaginal secretions or semen; d. In milk produced by the mammary glands; e. In excreted body wastes (feces and urine);
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Mode of Transmission
CONTACT TRANSMISSION VEHICLE TRANSMISSION VECTOR TRANSMISSION
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spread of pathogens from one host to another by direct contact, indirect contact, or respiratory droplets.
CONTACT TRANSMISSION:
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CONTACT TRANSMISSION
Direct Contact Transmission Indirect Contact Transmission Droplet Transmission
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Including person to person spread, typically involves body contact between hosts.
Direct Contact Transmission:
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Occurs when pathogens are spread from one host to another by fomites.
Indirect Contact Transmission
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objects or materials which are likely to carry infection, such as clothes, utensils, and furniture.
fomites
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Pathogens can be transmitted within droplet nuclei (mucous droplets) that exit the body during exhaling, coughing, sneezing.
Droplet Transmission:
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spread of pathogens via air, drinking water, and food as well as body fluids being handled outside the body.
VEHICLE TRANSMISSION:
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VEHICLE TRANSMISSION:
Airborne Transmission: Waterborne Transmission: Food-borne Transmission:
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Involves the spread of pathogens to the respiratory mucous membranes of a new host via an aerosol, a cloud of small droplets and solid particles suspended in the air that travels more than 1 meter. Aerosols may contain pathogens either on dust or inside droplets.
Airborne Transmission:
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Important in the spread of many gastrointestinal diseases. Note this can act as a reservoir as well as a vehicle of infection.
Waterborne Transmission
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_________ infection is a major source of disease in the world.
Fecal-oral
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Involves pathogens in and on foods that are poorly processed, undercooked or poorly refrigerated.
Food-borne Transmission:
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are animals (typically arthropods) that transmit diseases from one host to another.
VECTOR TRANSMISSION:
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VECTOR TRANSMISSION:
Biological vectors: Mechanical Vectors:
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These do not only transmit pathogens; they also serve as hosts for the multiplication of the pathogen during some stage of the pathogen’s life cycle. affecting humans are typically biting arthropods,
Biological vectors
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biting arthropods
mosquitoes, ticks, lice, fleas, blood sucking flies, blood sucking bugs and mites.
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These are not required as hosts by the pathogens they transmit; they only passively carry pathogens to new hosts on their feet or other body parts.
Mechanical Vectors:
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Pathogens enter the body at several sites, called
Portals of Entry
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Portals of Entry
SKIN MUCOUS MEMBRANES PLACENTA PARENTAL ROUTE
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The outer layer of of this is composed of relatively thick layers of tightly packed, dead, dry cells and it forms a barrier to most pathogens so long as it remains intact.
SKIN
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are capable of burrowing through the skin to reach underlying tissues
larvae of some parasitic worms
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can digest the dead outer layers of skin to gain entry to deeper, moister sites.
some fungi
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Line all the body cavities that are open to the outside world. Include the linings of the respiratory, gastrointestinal, urinary, and reproductive tracts, as well as the conjunctiva (the thin membrane covering the surface of the eyeball) and the underside of the eyelids.
MUCOUS MEMBRANES
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is the most frequently used portal of entry.
respiratory tract
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Some parasitic protozoa, helminths, bacteria, and viruses infect the body through the __________ mucous membranes.
gastrointestinal
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The developing embryo forms an organ, through which it obtains nutrients from the mother but because the two blood supplies do not actually contact each other, it typically forms an effective barrier to most pathogens.
placenta
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pathogens cross the placenta and infect the embryo or fetus sometimes causing:
 Spontaneous abortion  Birth Defects  Premature Birth
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A means by which the portals of entry are circumvented (by-pass or avoid).
PARENTAL ROUTE
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NONLIVING RESERVOIRS
Soil, water, and food
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Diseases that are naturally spread from their usual animal hosts to humans are called
zoonoses or zoonotic diseases.
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Humans may acquire zoonoses from animal reservoirs via several routes, including:
 Various types of direct contact with animals, and their wastes;  By eating animals;  Via bloodsucking arthropods.
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means hospital infection
Nosocomial infection
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Nosocomial infections result from the interaction of several factors:
 Microorganisms in the hospital environment,  The compromised (or weakened) status of the host, and  The chain of transmission in the hospital.
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the number of new cases of a disease in each area or population during a given period (such as a month or year).
Incidence
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the total number of cases, both new and already existing, in each area or population during a given period, usually expressed as a percentage of the population.
Prevalence
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Epidemiologists keep track of the occurrence of diseases by using two measures:
Incidence: Prevalence:
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a disease that normally occurs continually (at moderately regular intervals) at a relatively stable frequency within a given population or geographical area.
Endemic
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when only a few scattered cases occur within an area or population.
Sporadic
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a disease that occurs at a greater frequency than is unusual for an area or population.
Epidemic
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if an epidemic occurs simultaneously on more than one continent.
Pandemic

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