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Vocabulary
Vocabulary
A sudden rise in the incidence of a disease.
What is an outbreak?
Describe an antigen.
What is the macromolecule on the pathogen that starts an immune response in the body?
What is being transmitted.
What is a causative agent?
The name of the job that is responsible for handling an outbreak.
What is a contact tracer?
When looking at ELISA test results, this is what determines the concentration of antibodies.
What is the color of the well?
Describe a pathogen.
What is a causative agent of disease?
What an enzyme binds to.
What is a substrate?
Any two ways to break the chain of transmission.
What are: washing hands, using hand sanitizer, wearing masks, vaccinations, good hygiene, etc.?
Early or late identification? Which one is better for treatment and prevention of infectious disease?
What is early identification?
Name the two types of testing methods used in this unit that were used to diagnose our patients' illnesses.
What are: direct contact, indirect contact, droplets, airborne, and fecal/oral?
What is an antibody?
The area where the pathogen lives and multiplies.
What is the reservoir?
Name any two medical interventions that have helped prevent or treat outbreaks.
What are: ELISA testing, DNA sequencing, COVID tests, antibiotics, spinal taps, etc.?
This is what happens when the enzyme comes into contact with its substrate in an ELISA test.
What is a color change or a colorimetric reaction?
Four examples of resrviors.
What are: food, water, humans, animal or objects?
The function of a b lymphocyte.
What is to make specific antibodies?
The portal of exit is found on. . .
The current host or new susceptible host?
What is the current host (reservoir)?
Two ways increase your likelihood of getting sick with a pathogen.
What are: bad hygiene, close contact(s), weakened immune system, etc.?
The color of the peaks in DNA sequencing for Adenine and Guanine.
What is green for adenine and black for guanine?
The most common portal(s) of entry?
What are: by mouth or by cut/laceration?
Another name for the immune system.
This outbreak caused a mass hysteria when it came to eating at Chipotle in 2015.
What is E. coli?
The common law that protects all patient privacy when it comes to medical information and testing results.
What is HIPAA?
This project revolutionized the process of sequencing DNA and the medical field.
What is the Human Genome Project?