Infectious Diseases
The occurrence of cases of an illness, specific health-related behavior.
What is an Epidemic?
The living or nonliving in or on which an infectious agent lives, grows, and multiplies, and on which it depends for its survival in nature.
An individual who has been exposed to and harbors a disease-causing organism and who has done so for some time, even though the person may have recovered from the disease.
What is an Active Carrier?
____ is the uninterrupted and immediate transfer of an infectious agent from one person to another.
What is a Direct Transmission?
An epidemic that affects or attacks the population of an extensive region, country, or continent.
What is a Pandemic?
An invertebrate animal that transmits infection by conveying the infectious agent from one host to another.\
What is a Vector?
An individual who harbors a pathogen and who, although in the recovery phase of the course of the disease, is still infectious.
What is a Convalescent Carrier?
Occurs when an agent is transferred or carried by some intermediate item, organism, means, or process to a host, resulting in disease.
What is an Indirect Transmission?
Refers to the ongoing, usual, or constant presence of a disease in a community or among a group of people.
What is Endemic?
An inanimate object such as a piece of clothing, a door handle, or a utensil that can harbor an infectious agent and is capable of being a means of transmission.
What is a Fomite?
An individual who has been exposed to and harbors a pathogen, is in the beginning stages of the disease, is displaying symptoms, and has the ability to transmit the disease.
What is an Incubatory Carrier?
Occurs when droplets or dust particles carry the pathogen to the host and cause infection.
What is an Airborne Transmission?
A more than expected increase in the number of endemic cases.
What is an Outbreak?
An infectious organism in vertebrate animals that can be transmitted to humans through direct contact, a fomite, or a vector.
What is Zoonosis?
An individual who has been exposed to and harbors a pathogen but has not become ill or shown any of the symptoms of the disease. This could be referred to as a subclinical case.
What is an Healthy Carrier?
Occurs when an arthropod conveys the infectious agent.
What is a Vector-borne Transmission?
This occurs occasionally, or at regular intervals of time, or only in a few geographical places.
What is Sporadic?
_____ contains, spreads, or harbors an infectious organism.
What is a Carrier?
An individual who has been exposed to and harbors a pathogen and who can spread the disease in different places or at different intervals.
What is an Intermittent Carrier?
Involves an inanimate object that conveys an infectious agent to a host.
What is a Vehicle-borne Transmission?