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Key Terms
Stages of Infection
Diseases
Key Terms II
100
Disease causing agent.
What is a Pathogen?
100
Stage where the host is recuperating from the disease-causing agent.
What is the Recovery Stage?
100
Viral infection that causes swollen glands, sore throat, fever, weakness and fatigue.
What is Mononucleosis?
100
The way that pathogens move from reservoir to a host.
What is Mode of Transportation?
200
Environment in which infectious agents can be protected and supported.
What is a Reservoir?
200
Signs of recovery begin in this stage.
What is the Decline Stage?
200
Fluid filled skin eruptions along the sensory nerve pathways.
What is Shingles?
200
Chemical compounds produced by the immune system.
What is an Antibody?
300
An increase in number of cases of an infectious illness in a specific time and area.
What is an Epidemic?
300
Stage in which a disease reaches its highest point of development.
What is the Clinical Stage?
300
The common cold.
What is Acute Rhinitis?
300
Point in which agents leave their reservoir.
What is Port of Exit?
400
Casual pathogen of a specific disease.
What is an Agent?
400
Stage in which symptoms first present themselves.
What is the Prodromal Stage?
400
An inflammation in the lining of the abdominopelvic cavity.
What is Peritonitis?
400
System of chemical and cellular elements that protect the body.
What is the Immune System?
500
An epidemic that has spread over national boundaries.
What is a Pandemic?
500
Stage where a pathogen enters the body and the time it takes to multiply.
What is the Incubation Stages?
500
Illness that causes severe exhaustion, aches, and depression. (Mainly affects women ages 40+)
What is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
500
Allows pathogenic agents to enter the body of an uninfected person.
What is Portal of Entry?