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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| disease causing microorganism | pathogens |
| scientific study of disease | pathology |
| the cause | etiology |
| the manner in which a disease develops...how it is caused | pathogenesis |
| organisms enter the body | infection |
| occurs when an infection results in any change from a state of health, abnormal stage | disease |
| in or on your body at all times (colonized) | normal microbiota (normal flora) |
| may stay a few days then disappear | transient microbiota |
| involves competition amoung microbes | miccrobial antagonism (competitive exclusion) |
| relationship between the normal microbiota and the host. one dependent on other | symbiosis |
| one of the organism benefits and the other is unaffected. | commensalism |
| both organisms benefit | mutualism |
| live microbial cultures applied to or ingested that are intended to exert a beneficial effert | probiotics |
| one organism uses one source of food and kills it. the strong survive, the young/strong ones reproduce. | predation |
| eat from host without intent to kill host | parasitism |
| has to have weak host. want cause a disease if healthy. immune must be weak. | opportunistic pathogens |
| cant see or measure. changes in body functions. | symptoms |
| see and measure. physician can observe and measure. (visual) | sings |
| 1. the same pathogen must be present in every case of the disease. 2. the pathogen must be isolated from the diseased host and growth in pure culture. 3. the pathogen from the pure culture must cause the disease when it is inoculated into a healthy. 4... | Koch's Postulates |
| specific signs and symptoms that always shows up with a certain disease. | syndrome |
| can catch it | communicable disease |
| easy to catch | contagious disease |
| cant catch it | noncommunicable disease |
| a disease is the number of people in a population who develp a disease during a particular time period. new cases in that time period | incidence |
| number of people in your society at the given time has the disease | prevalence |
| only occurs occasionally | sporadic disease |
| disease constantly present in a population | endemic disease |
| aquire a certain disease in a relatively short period | epidemic disease |
| disease that occurs wouldwide | pandemic disease |
| sudden onset. hits fast. | acute disease |
| slowly, long-term, may return | chronic disease |
| in between acute and chronic disease | subacute disease |
| can have long time, dorment | latent disease |
| when many people are immune and it is hard to catch | herd immunity |
| invading microorganisms are limited to a relatively small area of the body | local infection |
| microogranisms or their products are spread throughout the body by the blood or lymph | systemic (generalized) infection |
| can arise from infections in areas such as the teeth, tonsils, and sinuses | focal infection |
| bacteria present | sepsis |
| blood-poisoning, bacteria in the blood | septicemia |
| bacteria in the blood | bacteremia |
| toxins in the blood | toxemia |
| viruses in the blood | viremia |
| first infection that causes the initial illness | primary infection |
| second infection after first has passed | secondary infection |
| no noticeable symptoms | subclinical (inapparent) infection |
| makes the body more susceptible to a disease and may alter the course of the disease | predisposing factor |
| first got it | incubation period |
| starting to feel it | prodromal period |
| the disease is most severe | period of illness |
| signs and symptoms start to go away | period of decline |
| goes back to normal | period of convalescence |
| pathogens, wherever they live | reservoir of infection |
| living source that doesnt show symptoms | carrier |
| animals carry | zoonoses |
| touch yourself | contact transmission |
| person-to-person | direct contact transmission |
| persono-to-object | indirect contact transmission |
| nonliving object incolced in the spread of an infection | fomite |
| a sneeze, short distance | droplet transmission |
| transmission of disease agent by a medium (water, food, or air) | vehicle transmission |
| animals that carry pathogens from one host to another | vector |
| pathogens are transported by the insects feet to other body parts | mechanical transmission |
| insect bites person then goes to another person then bites them. | biological transmission |
| infection aquired while staying at a hospital | nosocomial infection |
| one whose resistance to infection is impaired by disease, therapy, or burns | compromised host |
| havent had, but coming out to the socitey | emerging infectious disease |
| science that studies when and where disease occur and how they are transmitted in populations | epidemiology |
| branch of the U.S. public health service | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) |
| number of people who have the disease | morbidity |
| number of people who have the died from that disease | mortality |
| have to be reported | norifiable infectious diseases |
| rate of getting the disease | morbidity rate |
| rate of dying from the disease | mortality rate |
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