4 - Communicable Disease

• Communicable diseases - are often the leading causes of all illness in the country today. Most often they afflict the most vulnerable, the young and the elderly. They have numerous economic psychological, disabling and distinguishing effects to the emergence of newly discovered diseases and the re-emergence of old ones.
• Communicable diseases - are readily transferred from one infected person to a susceptible and uninfected person and maybe caused by microorganisms.
• TYPES OF MICROORGANISM CAUSING INFECTIONS: Bacteria, Viruses, Fungi, Parasites
• Bacteria - the most common infection-causing microorganisms
• Viruses - consist primarily of nucleic acid and therefore must enter a living cell in order tore produce
• Fungi - includes yeast and Molds
• Parasites - live on other living microorganism
• Pathogen: Living, Prions: No
• Pathogen: Living, Viruses: Debatable
• Pathogen: Living, Bacteria: Yes
• Pathogen: Cellular, Prions: No
• Pathogen: Cellular, Bacteria: Yes
• Pathogen: Cellular, Viruses: No
• Pathogen: Nucleic Acid, Viruses: Yes
• Pathogen: Nucleic Acid, Bacteria: Yes
• Pathogen: Nucleic Acid, Prions: No
• Pathogen: Prokaryotic/Eukaryotic, Prions: N/A
• Pathogen: Prokaryotic/Eukaryotic, Viruses: Neither
• Pathogen: Prokaryotic/Eukaryotic, Bacteria: Prokaryotic
• Pathogen: Uni/Multicellular, Prions: N/A
• Pathogen: Uni/Multicellular, Viruses: Debatable
• Pathogen: Uni/Multicellular, Bacteria: Uni
• Pathogen: Features, Prions: Protein that has been altered from its normal structure. Converts normal proteins to prions.
• Pathogen: Features, Viruses: Consist of DNA or RNA enclosed in protein, living inside cells. They invade and hijack host cells, causing their cytoplasm to produce
• Pathogen: Features, Bacteria: Simple cells with no internal membranes. Single strand of DNA that reproduces a sexually inside a host rapidly, and their wastes are often harmful.
• Pathogen: Diseases, Prions: Mad Cow disease
• Pathogen: Diseases, Viruses: AIDS, herpes, influenza
• Pathogen: Diseases, Bacteria: Cholera
• Pathogen: Living, Protozoans: Yes
• Pathogen: Living, Fungi: Yes
• Pathogen: Living, Macroparasites: Yes
• Pathogen: Cellular, Protozoans: Yes
• Pathogen: Cellular, Fungi: Yes
• Pathogen: Cellular, Macroparasites: Yes
• Pathogen: Nucleic Acid, Protozoans: Yes
• Pathogen: Nucleic Acid, Fungi: Yes
• Pathogen: Nucleic Acid, Macroparasites: Yes
• Pathogen: Prokaryotic/Eukaryotic: Protozoans: Eukaryotic
• Pathogen: Prokaryotic/Eukaryotic, Fungi: Eukaryotic
• Pathogen: Prokaryotic/Eukaryotic, Macroparasites: Eukaryotic