Case Levels
The first case discovered during an outbreak, and it will travel person to person.
What is primary case?
Objects that carry infection and disease.
What is fomite?
When a community has to take the initiative to prevent an infectious disease before it spreads.
What is active primary prevention?
When an infectious agent transfers from one person or object to another.
What is modes of transmission?
An infectious disease that has an outbreak all of the world.
What is pandemic?
A person that gets exposed from another person with the disease.
What is secondary case?
A place where an agent lives and grows.
What is reservoir?
Prevents disease before it occurs and spreads.
What is Primary prevention?
The transmission from physical contact between an infected person and an healthy person.
What is direct transmission?
The spreading of an infectious disease in a community.
What is epidemic?
The case where a person has new characteristic to a disease.
What is suspect case?
A non-living factor that indirectly transmits infectious agents.
What is vehicles?
When the community does not have to take action before the infectious disease spreads.
What is passive primary prevention?
Transmission from small respiratory droplets.
What is airborne transmission?
An infectious disease that is found among a certain group of people in a certain area.
What is endemic?
The first outbreak of disease that might not spread from person to person.
What is index case?
A person that is infected, but shows no symptoms, and passes the infection to others.
What is a carrier?
What is tertiary prevention?
When there was no contact between to humans.
What is indirect transmission?
When characteristics include common-source and propagated outbreak characteristics.
What is mixed epidemic?
Uniform criteria's used to define disease in a community.
What is surveillance case?
The transfer of disease from human to animal.
What is Zoonoses?
Identifying the disease in its early stages before it spreads.
What is secondary prevention?
When the vector uptakes the agent from an infected animal.
What is biological transmission?
An outbreak from the same source and effects a group of people.
What is common-source?