Transmission
When a vehicle with an infectious agent touches a host or is ingested by a host.
What is Vehicle-Borne Transmission?
Measures the link between exposure and a disease based on information from individuals.
What is Analytic Epidemiology?
An individual who can still pass on an infectious agent, even though they have recovered.
What is a Convalescent Carrier?
Concerned with preventing the onset of disease. (Immunization)
What is Primary Prevention?
A person considered directly affected by the outbreak.
What is a Case?
An infectious agent carried by an insect and transmits it to another host.
What is Vector-Borne Transmission?
Describes how diseases are spread and what causes them.
What is Descriptive Epidemiology?
A non-infected individual who is contaminated and can pass the infectious agent to another host.
What is a Healthy or Passive carrier?
Attempts to intervene and put an end to the disease before it fully develops. (Regular exams to detect disease in its earliest stages)
What is Secondary Prevention?
The first individual to bring a disease into a group.
An infectious agent is carried by particles suspended in air.
What is Airborne Transmission?
A spread of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.
What is Epidemic?
An infected individual who can pass the disease to others.
What is an Active Carrier?
Work to improve quality of life in those who are affected by disease.
What is Tertiary Prevention?
A person who acquired the infection through an alternate route. (No contact with initial individual)
What is Secondary Case?
An infectious agent does not replicate or develop in/on the vector.
What is Mechanical Transmission?
A spread of an infectious disease over an entire country or the world.
What is Pandemic?
Can pass on the infectious agent before illness begins; during the incubation period.
What is an Incubatory Carrier?
Personal involvement in improving one's life prior to the onset of disease. (Lifestyle changes - stopping smoking)
What is Active Primary Prevention?
The first documented patient with a condition or syndrome.
What is Index Case?
The vector replicates or duplicates the infectious agent, to inject a susceptible organism.
What is Biological Transmission?
Commonly found among certain individuals from or in a particular area.
What is Endemic?
Individuals who harbor a pathogen and can spread disease at different places and times.
What is an Intermittent Carrier?
Indirect involvement in preventing the onset of disease. (Public health efforts - clean water)
What is Passive Primary Prevention?
A case that is classified as _______ for reporting reasons.
What is Suspect Case?