Types of Infections
Covers a small region
What is local?
An infection acquired in a hospital or doctors office
What is nosocomial?
Includes coughs, sneezes, speaking in close quarters
What is droplet transmission?
Number of deaths from a specific disease in relation to the total population
What is mortality rate?
Disease causing microbes
What is a pathogen?
Spread throughout the body
What is systemic?
Mode of transmission that occurs through equipment, supplies, and air
What is indirect?
Vehicles include soil, plants, animals
What is airborne transmission?
Has a very high incidence in a population over a short period of time
What is an epidemic disease?
Degree or intensity of the disease produced by a pathogen
What is virulence?
Quick in course
What is acute?
Caused by organisms that enter the patient from the environment
What are exogenous infections?
Handshaking, kissing, touching, sexual contact
What is horizontal transmission?
The study of causes and origins of diseases.
What is etiology?
Capacity or ability of a microorganism to cause a disease.
What is pathogenicity?
Infection in one region from which pathogens travel to other regions
What is focal?
Includes urinary tract, respiratory tract, and blood
What are common sites of infection>
Clothing, dishes, bedding, toys, bar soap
Limited to a small number of isolated cases posing a threat to a large population.
What is sporadic disease?
Presence of microorganisms, usually where they are not wanted
What is contamination?
Present and multiplies in the blood
What is septicemia?
Caused by opportunists among patients own flora
What are endogenous infections?
Organisms that transmit a pathogen from one host to another
What is transmission by vectors?
The number of persons contracting a specific disease in relation to the total population.
Disturbance in the state of health, preventing the body from performing any or all of its normal functions
What is a disease?