Pathogens
E. Coli is caused by this type of pathogen.
What is Bacteria?
Recent pandemic that caused economic hardships, stressed healthcare systems and has impacted mental health.
What is COVID 19?
The chain of transmission contains these three parts.
Direct transfer of between the skin/mucosa of an infected person and that of a suseptible individual.
What is direct physical contact?
A host in which a parasite reproduces sexually.
What is a definitive host?
Flu is caused by this type of pathogen.
What is virus?
This virus caused concern because it was so deadly, however, did not spread easily from person to person.
What is H5N1 ("bird flu").
What are direct transmission and indirect transmission.
A spray of infected droplets come in contact with skin/mucosa of a suseptible host.
What is a reservoir host?
Ringworn is caused by this type of pathogen
What is Fungi?
What are the three influenza pandemics in the 20th century.
What are the Spanish flu, the Asian flu, and the Hong Kong flu.
The time frame from exposure to an infectious agent until the time of the first sign or symptom of the disease.
What is the incubation period?
The exposure of infectious agents maintained in environmental reservoirs
What is direct contact to an agent in the environment.
A host in which larve develop but sexual reproduction does not take place.
What is an intermediate host?
Giardia is caused by this type of pathogen.
What is Parasites?
In 1918, the _______ pandemic killed more than half a million people in the US and up to 50 million worldwide.
What is the flu pandemic?
The duration of time between exposure to an agent and the onset of infectiousness.
What is the latent period?
A direct transfer of infectious agents through broken skin.
What is animal bites?
A host from which infectious agents cannot be transmitted to other suseptible hosts.
What is a dead end host?
Organisms that cause a disease or condition.
What are pathogens?
In 2019, these 2 infectious diseases were ranked in the top 10 causes of death by the WHO.
What are lower respiratory infections and diarrheal diseases
The duration between the first and last disease sign/symptom.
What is period of clinical illness?
This type of transmission occurs during pregnancy
What is transplacental?
A generic term for a living organism involved in the indirect transmission of an infectious agent from a reservoir or infected host to a suseptible host.
What is vector?