Disease and Pathogen basics
A disease causing organism
What is a pathogen?
An organism that transmits disease (tick, mosquito)
What is a vector?
What are clinical signs?
Disease caused by a virus
What is a viral disease?
Administration of a vaccine to prevent disease
What is a vaccination?
A disease caused by a pathogen
An animal that harbors a pathogen
What is a host?
Changes noticed by the handler/owner
What are symptoms?
Disease caused by bacteria
What is a bacterial disease?
Practices to prevent disease spread
What is biosecurity?
A disease not caused by pathogens
What is a noninfectious disease?
Where a pathogen normally lives and multiplies
What is a reservoir?
Identification of a disease
What is a diagnosis?
Disease caused by parasites
What is a parasitic disease?
Isolation to prevent disease spread
What is quarantine?
Disease transmitted from animals to humans
What is a zoonotic disease?
Easily spreads between animals
What is contagious?
Expected outcome of a disease
What is a prognosis?
Disease caused by fungi
What is a fungal disease?
Resistance due to widespread immunity
What is herd immunity?
The cause of a disease
What is etiology?
Time between exposure and symptoms
What is an incubation period?
Animal autopsy
What is necropsy?
Disease inherited through DNA
What is a genetic disease?
Cleaning to reduce pathogens
What is sanitation?