Methods of Transmission
Transferring an agent from one individual to another through physical contact
What is Direct Transmission?
Criteria created to classify people with certain diseases and health conditions
What is the case definition?
Preventing a disease before it occurs
What is Primary Prevention?
Person that has and carries a disease (even after being treated from it)
Epidemic affecting a large region or continent
What is a Pandemic?
Examples of this include transfer through air currents, water, and food
What is Indirect Transmission?
The first disease case within a population
What is the Primary Case?
A behavior change in an individual to prevent a disease from occurring (quitting smoking)
What is Active Primary Prevention?
Person who has been exposed to a disease, but does not show symptoms
What is a healthy carrier?
Organisms capable of causing disease
What is a Pathogen?
Mosquitoes infect hosts with malaria through...
What is Vector-borne transmission?
People infected by a disease because of being in contact with the primary case...
What is the Secondary Case?
Eating nutrient-rich food and vitamins (not to be confused with the stopping of smoking)
What is Passive Primary Prevention?
Person who is in a recovery phase of treatment, but remains infectious to others
What is a Convalescent Carrier?
Invertebrate animal that can transmit an infectious agent to humans (such as mosquitoes)
What is a Vector?
Physical transfer that flies use to transfer pathogens...
What is mechanical transmission?
First disease case brought to the epidemiologists
What is an index case?
Looking and detecting for the signs that identify a disease
What is Secondary Prevention?
Person that carriers a disease (in the beginning phase), shows symptoms, and can transmit the disease to others
What is an Incubatory Carrier?
Objects like clothing that can hold a disease and can transmit it
What is a Fomite?
Example: A parasite completes its cycle with the presence of blood meal, it is regurgitated by a mosquito onto the host...
What is biological transmission?
Person shows all symptoms of the disease, however, is not diagnosed with the disease
What is a suspect case?
Providing rehabilitation and treatment when the disease has already happened
What is Tertiary Prevention?
Person who can spread a disease in different places at different intervals
What is an Intermittent Carrier?
An infectious organism in vertebrate animals that can be transmitted to humans through direct contact (like rabies)
What is Zoonosis?