Modes of Transmission
This occurs when infectious agents are carried by dust or droplet nuclei suspended in the air.
What is airborne transmission?
This type of prevention refers to screening in order to identify diseases in the earliest stages. An example would be a mammogram.
What is secondary prevention?
This factor of the triangle impacts opportunity for exposure.
What is environment?
An example of this indirect transmission would be food, water, biological products, and fomites, or inanimate objects.
This is referred to as the ability to produce a desired or intended result.
What is efficacy?
Sneezing, coughing, or even talking are examples of this direct type of transmission.
What is droplet spread?
This type of primary prevention requires some sort of behavioral change on the part of the individual.
What is active prevention?
This factor of the triangle deals with the duration of the disease spread.
What is time?
This refers to the manner in which a pathogen enters a susceptible host.
This type of outbreak occurs when a group of persons are all exposed to an infectious agent or a toxin from the same origin.
What is common-source?
This type of prevention refers to intervention before health effects occur.
What is primary prevention?
This model of disease causation consists of four factors involved in the development for infectious diseases.
What is the Epidemiology Triangle?
The transmission of infection occurs once the pathogen leaves what?
What is the reservoir?
What is analytic epidemiology?
This refers to the transfer of an infectious agent from a reservoir to a host by suspended air particles and inanimate objects.
This type of prevention refers to managing disease post diagnosis to slow or stop disease progression. Chemotherapy would be an example.
What is tertiary prevention?
This factor of the triangle impacts exposure susceptibility and response.
What is host?
This is the path by which a pathogen leaves its host.
What is portal of exit?
This is the first identified case in a group of related cases of a particular communicable or heritable disease.
What is an index case?
Mosquitoes, fleas, and ticks are all examples of this type of infectious agent.
What is a vector?
This factor of the triangle is referred to as the cause.
What is infectious agent?
This is the final link in the chain of infection.
What is a (susceptible) host?
This is a disease that can be transmitted from animals to humans to animals.