The Chain of Infection
When germs leave the body through the skin
What is Portal of Exit?
Examples of this prevention include health promotion, health education, and health protection
What is Primary Prevention?
Immediate transfer of an agent from a host/reservoir to a susceptible host
What is Direct Transmission?
An infected person or animal that contains, spreads, or harbors an infectious organism
What is a Carrier?
A person who has been diagnosed with a health-related state or event
Food, water, and feces can be classified as this
What is a Reservoir?
Examples of this prevention include exercising, not smoking, and reducing dietary fat intake
What is Active Primary Prevention?
Transfer of bacteria or viruses on dust particles or on small respiratory droplets that may become aerosolized when individuals sneeze, cough, laugh, or exhale
What is Airborne Transmission?
Individual who has been exposed to and harbors a disease-causing organism (pathogen) and who has done so for some time, even though they may have recovered from the disease
The first disease case in the population
What is a Primary Case?
Indirect transmission to humans by mosquito vectors
What is Modes of Transmission?
What is Secondary Prevention?
What is Vector-borne Transmission?
Individual who have been exposed to and harbor a pathogen but have not become ill or shown any of the symptoms of the disease
What is a Healthy Carrier? or What is a Passive Carrier?
People who become infected from the primary case
What is a Secondary Case?
When germs are transmitted through skin into blood through a mosquito bite
What is Portal of Entry?
Efforts to limit disability by providing rehab where disease, injury, or a disorder has already occurred and caused damaged
What is Tertiary Preevention?
Vector-borne disease transmission processes that occur when the pathogen, in order to spread, uses a host as a mechanism for a ride, for nourishment, or as part of a physical transfer process
What is Mechanical Transmission?
Individual exposed to and harbor a pathogen, are in the beginning stages of the disease, are showing symptoms, and have the ability to transmit disease
What is an Incubatory Carrier?
Some that has all signs and symptoms of disease or condition but hasn’t been diagnosed
What is a Suspect Case?
a process linked by an infectious agent, reservoir, portal of exit, mode of transmission, portal of entry, and susceptible host
What is Chain of Infection?
Examples of this prevention include eating vitamin-enriched foods and drinking fluoridated water
What is Passive Primary Prevention?
Transfer of a pathogen to a susceptible host by a vector, with the pathogen undergoing reproduction, developmental changes, or both while in the vector
What is Biological Transmission?
Individual who has been exposed to and harbors a pathogen and who can spread the disease at different places or intervals
What is an Intermittent Carrier?
The first case brought to attention by epidemiologist
What is a Index Case?