Basics & Leading Causes
These are illnesses caused by infectious agents that can be transmitted between people.
What are communicable diseases?
A disease constantly present in a population is called this.
What is endemic?
The ability to cause disease is called this.
What is pathogenicity?
Transmission from mother to child during pregnancy is called this.
What is vertical transmission?
Breaking this link prevents pathogen from leaving the host.
What is portal of exit?
This is a leading cause of death worldwide related to infectious disease.
What are lower respiratory infections?
A sudden increase in cases in a specific area.
What is an epidemic?
The ability to invade and multiply in a host.
What is infectivity?
Person-to-person spread is called this.
What is horizontal transmission?
The first link in the chain of infection.
What is the reservior (contains infectious agent)?
This term refers to potential exposure factors that increase disease likelihood.
What are health risks?
A worldwide spread of disease.
What is a pandemic?
The severity of disease caused is called this.
What is virulence?
A person who continues to harbor a pathogen long-term.
What is a chronic carrier?
Breaking this link prevents pathogen exit from the host.
What is portal of exit?
This population is at highest risk for communicable disease complications.
Who are immunocompromised individuals?
This describes diseases newly appearing in a population.
What are emerging diseases?
Microorganism, unicellular, gram-positive or gram negative infectious agent
What is bacteria?
A person who can transmit disease before symptoms appear.
What is an incubatory carrier?
Hand hygiene interrupts this link.
What is mode of transmission?
One major goal of the WHO is to eradicate this bacterial disease by 2030.
What is tuberculoisis?
This involves identifying and monitoring exposed individuals.
What is contact tracing?
Microorganisms unable to to grow or reproduce outside a host cell
What are viruses?
A person recovering but still infectious.
What is a convalescent carrier?
The means through which an infectious agent goes into a susceptible host
What is the portal of entry?