Cases
Person who has a particular disease, disorder, injury, or condition
What is a Case?
Person who has recovered from a disease but harbors a disease-causing organism
What is Active Carrier?
The way that infectious agents move from person to person
What is Modes of Transmission?
Stopping the infection or spread of disease before it happens
What is Primary Prevention?
Any virus, bacteria, fungus, or parasite
What is Pathogen?
Person that becomes infected but not considered primary
What is Secondary Case?
What is Passive Carrier?
The immediate transfer of a disease from one person to another
What is Direct Transmission?
Requires behavioral change in the individual
What is Active Primary Prevention?
What is Fomite?
No matter where or when the disease was identified the case is always diagnosed
What is Case Definition?
What is Intermittent Carrier?
Droplets of particles carrying pathogens to hosts
What is Airborne Transmission?
Does not require behavioral change in the individual
What is Passive Primary Prevention?
A place where infectious diseases live, grow, and multiply
What is Reservoir?
Person who is not diagnosed but shows all symptoms and signs of being infected
What is Suspect Case?
Person who is in the recovery phase of the disease but can still spread the disease
What is Convalescent Carrier?
Infectious agent catches a ride on an intermediate item to a host to cause infection
What is Indirect Transmission?
Providing rehabilitation
What is Tertiary Prevention?
Animals that transmit infectious diseases
What is Vector?
First case brought to the attention of Epidemiologist
What is Index Case?
Person who displays symptoms and can spread the disease in the beginning stages
What is Incubatory Carrier?
Mosquito or flea carries the infectious disease
What is Vector-borne Transmission?
Health screening and detection activities mainly used to identify disease
What is Secondary Prevention?
What is Vehicle?