Vocabulary
An infection caused by a parasite?
Parasitic disease
A patient just got diagnosed with mono aka kissing disease. This pathogen spreads easily among individuals. This pathogen would be classified as?
Communicable disease
What is an agents capacity to multiply and infect?
Infectivity
The ameba Naegleria fowleri aka the brain eating ameba was found in a patient. Prior to hospitalization, the patient just recently Lake Sinclair. An area know where the ameba lives and thrives would be called?
Envirnment
Resistance to whole community of infections?
Heard immunity
A women just had a baby and is concerned about the passible pathogens that could infect the baby. The doctor reassures the mother and tells her that the baby inherited her immune system. This would be an example of.
Passive immunity
Host that harbors the infectious agent is considered?
A patient shows symptoms of food poisoning shortly after eating contaminated food, but laboratory tests reveal that the bacteria are no longer present in the body. What might be the cause of the illness, and how do some infectious agents lead to such a condition?"
toxin
An infection caused by a parasite?
Parasitic disease
A patient has contracted covid but does not show signs and symptoms. This would be an example of?
Subclinical infection