Types of Carriers
A pre-exposed individual who carries a pathogen and has carried it for a duration of time even if they have recovered from the condition.
Criteria that is set to a specific standard applied in situations to assure that cases are diagnosed in a consistent manner.
What is a Case Definition?
The pathogen is spread by using a host to either gain nourishment or a physical transfer.
What is a Mechanical Transmission?
The precautionary measures taken to halt a disorder or disease before it occurs.
What is a Primary prevention?
An organism that has the ability to cause disease or a condition in its host.
What is a Pathogen?
A person who experienced exposure to the pathogen and harbors it within themselves but has not shown signs of illness.
What is a Healthy or Passive Carrier?
The first person who introduces an infectious disease into a collective number of people such as a school or community.
What is a Primary Case?
Immediate transfer of a pathogen from one individual to another and requires physical contact for a successful transfer.
What is a Direct Transmission?
Behavioral change is required in order to improve one’s health on the fault of the individual (such as ceasing smoking cigarettes).
What is an Active primary prevention?
A common disease or condition that is found in a certain area or group of people.
What is an Endemic?
A person who has experienced exposure to a pathogen and now carries that pathogen and can spread the condition at different times and to different places.
What is an Intermittent Carrier?
The person who obtains the disease as a result from exposure to the primary carrier.
What is a Secondary Case?
An intermediate organism or means carries an agent to a host to cause disease (such as air currents).
What is an Indirect Transmission?
Behavioral change that isn’t required of the individual but improved health occurs due to an external passive yet beneficial occurrence (such as drinking vitamin-rich water).
What is a Passive primary prevention?
An occurrence of a disease that is infectious becomes widespread in a community.
What is an Epidemic?
Even if the individual is in the process of recovering from the disease, they are still infectious because they still carry the pathogen.
What is a Convalescent Carrier?
A sole person or group or people who have not been properly diagnosed with a curtain disease but have all of the symptoms and signs of the undiagnosed condition.
What is a Suspect Case?
An arthropod spreads the infectious pathogen through breaking skin contact and transmitting the pathogen through the bloodstream of the new host.
What is a Vector-borne Transmission?
Actions that relate to early detections and screenings so as to better the chances of a cure or reduce the likelihood of death or a progressive disability.
What is a Secondary prevention?
A widespread infectious disease that becomes worldwide.
What is a Pandemic?
A sole person that experienced exposure to and harbors the pathogen and may exhibit symptoms near the beginning stages and can transmit the disease.
What is an Incubatory Carrier?
Brought to the epidemiologist is the first case of infection.
What is an Index Case?
Changes occurring due to the pathogen going through stages of its life cycle while residing within the host before spreading and latching on to a new host.
What is a Biological Transmission?
To stop or impede the further progression of a condition or disease in order to save it from needing more extensive care.
What is a Tertiary prevention?
A group of people that were all exposed to a pathogen or toxin from the same origin.
What is Common-source Outbreak?