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Chapter 17 micro
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Koch’s Postulate 1 | The microbe must be found in every case of the disease. |
| Koch’s Postulate 2 | The microbe must be isolated and grown in pure culture. |
| Koch’s Postulate 3 | The pure culture must cause disease in a healthy host. |
| Koch’s Postulate 4 | The microbe must be re-isolated from the experimentally infected host. |
| Importance of Koch’s postulates | Establishes causation of disease. |
| Epidemiology | Study of frequency and distribution of disease in populations. |
| Mortality rate | Number of deaths from a disease. |
| Morbidity rate | Number of cases of a disease. |
| Index case | First identified case in an outbreak. |
| Endemic | Disease occurs at a steady, expected rate. |
| Sporadic | Disease occurs irregularly and infrequently. |
| Epidemic | Sudden increase in cases above normal levels. |
| Pandemic | Epidemic that spreads across continents. |
| Common-source epidemic | Many infected from a single source. |
| Propagated epidemic | Disease spread person to person. |
| Point-source epidemic | Everyone exposed at the same time. |