Types of Carriers
Someone that can transmit a disease.
What is an active carrier?
When the infectious pathogen is transmitted directly through direct contact or droplets.
What is a direct transmission?
Micro-organism that can cause infections, illnesses, and diseases.
What is a pathogen?
Preventing the disease before it occurs.
What is primary prevention?
A disease or illness occurring and is prevalent around the world.
What is pandemic?
Someone who does not exhibit signs or symptoms of infection, but can transmit the disease.
What is a healthy carrier?
When the infectious pathogen is transmitted through vectors, air particles, or vehicles.
What is an indirect transmission?
Ways in which the infectious pathogen enters the susceptible host
What is a portal of entry?
Reducing the impact or effect of a disease once it has already occurred.
What is secondary prevention?
Widespread occurrence of a disease or illness in a community at a particular time
What is epidemic?
Someone that recovers from a disease, but is still capable of transmitting the disease.
What is a convalescent carrier?
When droplets, dust, or other small particles containing infectious pathogens are transmitted through the air.
What is an airborne transmission?
Methods in which the infectious agent leaves the reservoir.
What is a portal of exit?
Easing the impact or effects of an ongoing disease.
What is tertiary prevention?
An individual recognized as having a specific disease or illness.
What is a case?
Someone that spreads the pathogens of a disease during the incubation period
What is an incubatory carrier?
When diseases result from infections transmitted to humans and animals by bloodsucking insects.
What is a vector-borne transmission?
The places where infectious pathogens grow and multiply.
What is a reservoir?
When an individual is personally involved, such as changing their lifestyle behaviors, in order to prevent disease.
What is active primary prevention?
the power to produce a desired outcome or effect.
What is efficacy?
Someone that has been exposed to the pathogen and can spread the disease at different intervals.
What is an intermittent carrier?
When inanimate objects, such as fomites, are contaminated with the infectious agent and transmits the disease through contact with the human body.
What is a vehicle-borne transmission?
Ways in which the infectious agent can travel from the reservoir to the susceptible host.
What are modes of transmissions?
When there is no required change from an individual in order to prevent a disease from occurring.
What is passive primary prevention?
A search for the cause and effects, and associations between exposures and outcomes.
What is analytic epidemiology?