Extra Credit Pathogen Type
Blastomycosis is this type of pathogen.
What is a fungus?
This type of graph that shows time on the X-axis and the number of cases (or sometimes the number of deaths) on the Y-axis.
What is an epi-curve (or epidemic curve)?
These animals, which also carry Nipah virus and rabies, are believed to be the reservoir for Ebola.
What are bats?
When antibiotics kill "good bacteria" in the gut, this other bacteria can rapidly reproduce and produce a toxin causing severe diarrhea.
What is c. diff?
This term refers to epidemiological methods that require the epidemiologist to get involved in the community (for example, door-to-door patient interviews).
What is shoe leather epidemiology?
Brucellosis is this type of pathogen.
What are bacteria?
This term refers to a global epidemic.
What is a pandemic?
This strategy of vaccinating contacts and contacts of contacts has successfully been used in recent Ebola outbreaks.
What is ring vaccination?
This type of antibiotic therapy refers to healthcare providers making an educated guess as to which bacteria is causing an illness (based on patient symptoms, health history, community health, etc.).
What is empirical therapy?
What is a cooling tower?
Lyme Disease is this type of pathogen.
What are bacteria?
This type of study compares the exposures of healthy people to the exposures of sick people and was used to investigate a cluster of norovirus cases in superblock in 2016.
What is a case-control study?
What is a spore?
This term refers to population-level immunity from high vaccination rates (or immunity from natural infection) that results in unvaccinated individuals (who have no history of natural infection) being protected from disease.
What is herd immunity?
These animals have contracted anthrax in our campus scenario and are currently contracting H5N1 in farms across the country.
What are cattle/cows?
Nipah is this type of pathogen.
What is a virus?
This term refers to the number of deaths in an outbreak divided by the number of cases in an outbreak.
What is person-to-person transmission?
Though there is currently a vaccine available for dogs to protect against this disease, the human vaccine was pulled from the market decades ago due to a lack of public acceptance leading to low uptake.
What is lyme disease?
This program at public health labs prevents illness and death in infants with metabolic conditions.
What is newborn screening?
Cryptosporidiosis is this type of pathogen.
What is a parasite?
This type of outbreak/epidemic source is one that occurs with pathogens that spread from person to person.
What is a propagated/progressive source?
Both anthrax and Ebola are this type of disease, which can spread from animals to humans.
What is a zoonotic disease?
The anti-vaccine movement was accelerated when Andrew Wakefield and colleagues published a stating suggesting that the MMR vaccine causes this condition.
What is autism?
This laboratory technique allows public health labs to determine if different cases of a particular illness may be related.
What is whole genome sequencing?