CPH LEC M3

• condition that results when a microorganism invades the body?

  infection
• group of microorganisms that can cause an infection or disease?

  bacteria

  fungi

  parasites

  viruses
• Involves implementing procedures and policies that prevent infection?

  infection control
• The ability of a biological agent to establish an infection?

  infectivity
• The capability of an agent to cause disease?

  pathogenicity
• Symptoms occur and subside within 3 months?

  acute disease
• Symptoms continue longer than 3 months and, in some cases, for the remainder of one’s life?

  chronic disease
• sudden increase in occurrences of a disease in a particular time and place?

  outbreak
• constant maintained increased occurences of a disease in a particular area?

  endemic
• repid spread of disease in a large population in a region within a short period?

  epidemic
• global epidemic?

  pandemic
• periods of disease?

  incubation

  prodromal

  period of illness

  period of decline

  period of covalescene
• period of exposure?

  incubation
• period of general signs and symptoms?

  prodromal
• dominant and contagius. full blast of symptoms?

  period of illness
• improvement signs and symptoms?

  period of decline
• recovery period?

  period of covalescene
• A framework for understanding the causes and transmission of infectious diseases?

  epidemiologic triangle
• 3 factors of epidemiologic triangle?

  agent

  host

  environment
• causitive agents?

  biological

  chemical

  physical
• 2 types of biological causitive agents?

  cellular

  acellular
• examples of cellular?


  parasites

  protozoa

  prokaryote

  fungi
• examples of acellular?

  virus

  prion
• physical causitive agents?

  fire

  electrical

  radioactive material

  sound
• chemical causitive agents?

  cigarette smoke

  antibiotics

  aerosols
• Someone with a decreased ability to resist infection?

  susceptible host
• Able to reject the ill effects of the presence of microbes?

  resistant host
• caused by microorganisms such as viruses or bacteria that are carried in blood?

  bloodborne diseases
• examples of bloodborne diseases?

  HIV

  Hepatitis B

  Hepatitis C
• attacks the body’s immune system and can eventually cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)?

  HIV
• vaccine-preventable liver infection caused by the hepatitis B virus?


  hepatitis b
• most widespread chronic bloodborne illness in the United States?

  hepatitis c
• infectious that have newly appeared in a population or have existed previously but are rapidly increasing in incidence or geographic range?

  emerging infectious diseases
• those that were once major health problems globally or in a particular country and then declined, but are again becoming health problems for a significant proportion of the population?

  re emerging infectious disease
• Middle eastern respiratory syndrome?

  coronavirus
• ebola hemorrhagic fever?

  ebola virus
• first patient of ebola?

  mabalo lokela
• influenza ca?

  othomyxoviruses
• dengue fever?

  flavivirus
• malaria?

  plasmodium spp