Cases
Any virus, bacteria, fungus, or parasite that can potentially cause an illness or disease
What is a Pathogen?
Immediate transfer of a pathogen through physical contact between an infected host and an uninfected host
What is Direct Transmission?
Form of screening and detecting diseases to allow early treatment and prevent further severity of disease/illness
What is Secondary Prevention?
What is a Carrier?
An inanimate object that can foster an infectious agent and is a possible form of transmission
What is a Fomite?
The first case of a disease in a certain population
What is a Primary Case?
What is Indirect Transmission?
Mode of prevention that does not require an individuals to undergo any behavioral changes
What is Passive Primary Prevention?
Individual that fosters a pathogen and is able to infect others while in recovery
What is a Convalescent Carrier?
A nonliving mediator that transfers an infectious agent from its habitat to a susceptible host
What is a Vehicle?
Person who gets infected from contact with the primary case after a disease enters a population
What is Secondary Case?
An arthropod carriers an infectious agent
What is Vector-borne Transmission?
Mode of prevention that requires an individual to undergo behavioral changes
What is Active Primary Prevention?
What is a Healthy Carrier?
Habitat where an infectious agent lives, grows, and reproduces
What is a Reservoir?
What is Case Definition?
An inanimate object carries an infectious agent onto a susceptible host
Prevention level that tries to minimize the severity of an illness or disease after it has already been diagnosed
What is Tertiary Prevention?
Individual who has been exposed to the pathogen and shows symptoms in the early stages and is able to transmit the disease
What is an Incubatory Carrier?
Invertebrate that transmits an infection by transferring the infectious agent from host to host
What is a Vector?
The first case of a certain disease that has caught the attention of epidemiologists
What is an Index Case?
A pathogen goes through the process of changes in its life cycle while still within the host or vector before being transmitted to a new, susceptible host
What is Biological Transmission?
Attempt to increase the productivity and usefulness of an individual
What is Rehabilitation?
Individual who has been exposed to and fosters a pathogen and is able to transmit the disease at different times and places
What is an Intermittent Carrier?
Infectious host in vertebrate organisms that can be spread to humans through direct contact, a famine, or vector
What is Zoonosis?