Types of carriers
a person who has harbored a pathogen for a significant time and may have recovered from the disease.
What is an active carrier?
Transmission that requires close contact with the infection host and immediately transfers the infectious agent.
What is direct transmission?
Aiming to prevent the disease or injury before it ever happens
What is primary prevention?
A field of science that studies health problems, events, and prevention within populations.
What is Epidemiology?
A specific infectious agent (such as a bacterium or virus) of disease.
What is a pathogen?
A person that harbors or has been exposed to the pathogen that's in its earlier stages and is beginning to show symptoms. They can also transmit the disease.
What is an incubatory carrier?
When the infectious agent is carried by an immediate object. For example, water or food. This can transfer to the host.
What is indirect transmission?
Using detection and health screenings to identify the disease
What is secondary prevention?
The host, the agent, the environment, and time.
What is epidemiology triangle?
A natural environment that the pathogen requires for its survival.
What is a reservoir?
Contaminated with the pathogen and can transmit it to another host, but doesn't show symptoms.
What is a healthy carrier?
when bacteria or viruses travel on dust particles or small droplets when people sneeze, laugh, exhale, or cough.
What is airborne transmission?
Aiming to block the impact of an illness or injury from advancing.
What is tertiary prevention?
A constant presence of a disease in a community or among a group of people but case numbers stay the same.
What is endemic?
takes place in one of three ways, penetration, inhalation, or ingestion.
What is the portal of entry?
One that harbors the pathogen and can spread the pathogen in different places or times.
What is an intermittent carrier?
when an arthropod doesn't cause the disease it carries it.
What is vector-borne transmission?
Doesn't require behavior change on the individual in order to prevent a disease or disorder from occurring
What is passive primary prevention?
When epidemics occur at several different continents (global spread)
What is a pandemic?
Pathogen needs to leave the reservoir. For example, in humans it may be saliva, feces, or discharges
What is a portal of exit?
A person who recovered from infectious disease but is still capable of transmitting the infectious agent to other hosts.
What is the convalescent carrier?
An inanimate object transfer the infectious agent. For example a swimming pool
What is vehicle-borne transmission?
Requires behavior change on the individual.
What is active primary prevention?
A type of disease passes from an animal or insect to a human.
What is zoonosis?
Pathogen can be transmitted either directly or indirectly
What is the mode of transmission?