Types of Carriers
Definition of 'Healthy Carrier'.
What is an individual who has been exposed to and harbors a pathogen but has not become ill or shown any of the symptoms of the disease?
What is droplets or dust particles carry the pathogen to the host?
Definition of 'Case".
Definition of 'Vehicle'.
What is a nonliving intermediary that conveys the infectious agent from its reservoir to a susceptible host?
Definition of 'Primary Prevention'.
What is preventing a disease or disorder before it happens?
Definition of 'Active Carrier'.
What is an individual who has been exposed to and harbors a disease-causing organism and who has done so for some time, even though the person may have recovered from the disease?
Definition of 'Vehicle-borne Transmission'.
What is an inanimate object that conveys an infectious agent?
Definition of 'Primary Case'.
What is the first disease case in the population?
Definition of 'Carrier'.
What is contains, spreads, or harbors an infectious organism?
Definition of 'Secondary Prevention'.
What is aimed at the health screening and detection activities used to identify diseases?
Definition of 'Intermittent Carrier'.
What is an individual who has been exposed to and harbors a pathogen and who can spread the disease in different places or at different intervals?
Definition of 'Direct Transmission'.
What is the uninterrupted and immediate transfer of an infectious agent from one person to another?
Definition of 'Suspect Case'.
What is an individual who has all the signs and symptoms of a disease or condition but has not been diagnosed as having the disease?
Definition of 'Zoonosis'.
What is an infectious organism in vertebrate animals that can be transmitted to humans through direct contact, a fomite, or a vector?
Definition of 'Active Primary Prevention'?
What is requires behavior change in the individual?
Definition of 'Convalescent Carrier'.
What is an individual who harbors a pathogen and who, although in the recovery phase of the course of the disease, is still infectious?
Definition of 'Vector-borne Transmission'.
What is when an arthropod conveys the infectious agent?
Definition of 'Index Case'.
What is the first disease case brought to the attention of the epidemiologist?
Definition of 'Vector'.
What is an invertebrate animal that transmits infection by conveying the infectious agent from one host to another?
Definition of 'Tertiary Prevention'.
What is consists of limiting any disability by providing rehabilitation when a disease, injury, or disorder has already occurred and caused damage?
Definition of 'Incubatory Carrier'.
What is an individual who has been exposed to and harbors a pathogen, is in the beginning stages of the disease, is displaying symptoms, and has the ability to transmit the disease?
Definition of 'Biological Transmission'.
What is when the pathogen undergoes changes as part of its life cycle while within the host and before being transmitted to the new host?
Definition of 'Case Definition'.
What is ensures that cases are consistently diagnosed, regardless of where or when they were identified and who diagnosed the case?
Definition of 'Reservoir'.
What is the habitat in or on which an infectious agent lives, grows, and multiples, and on which it depends for its survival in nature?
Definition of 'Passive Primary Prevention'.
What is does not require behavior change on the part of the individual?