Transmissions
What is Modes of Transmission
A pathogen has successfully transferred from the source of the infection to a host.
What is Convalescent carrier?
When a person has recovered from a disease but are still contagious.
What is Descriptive Epidemiology?
Occurrence of diseases. Person, place, time.
What is Chain of infection?
A sequence of steps in how the infection is created and how its transmitted.
What is Passive primary prevention?
A person is not active in making lifestyle changes made for prevention.
A spread of a pathogen, that can be carried through the air and infect other organisms.
What is Incubatory carrier?
Are even contagious even though the person has yet to develop symptoms.
What is Analytic Epidemiology?
To explain the cause and effects, or the why and how of exposures and outcomes.
What is Portal of exit?
An infectious agent leaves the host or reservoir.
What is Primary prevention?
Precautionary steps to prevent infection before health effects occur.
What is Direct transmission?
When there is close contact between an infectious person and a susceptible host.
What is Intermittent carrier?
Those who have been exposed to a disease and is now a carrier.
What is Epidemic?
Widespread of infectious disease within a community.
What is Portal of entry?
Where and how the pathogen enters the body of the susceptible host.
What is Active primary prevention ?
A person making to effort to keep them from catching the infection.
What is Mechanical transmission?
When one is infected with a pathogen, the infected host can spread it to a susceptible host.
What is Active Carrier?
Someone who has the pathogen and is infected, and can also transmit it to others.
What is Endemic?
Diseases found among particular groups of people or in one area.
What is Rehibilitation?
Restoring a person’s health or well-being through therapy or training, after the infections been treated.
What is Secondary prevention?
Screenings, early diagnosis.
What is Vehicle-borne transmission?
Transmits through contaminated resources, such as water and food.
What is Healthy or passive carriers?
Contaminated with the pathogen and can pass it to another host.
What is Pandemic?
When a disease spreads across nations or countries, largest infection rate.
What is Epidemiology triangle?
Model used for explaining the creation of diseases, and to determine how hosts become infected.
What is Tertiary prevention?
Persons already infected. Goal is to delay anymore symptoms of the disease. To make the patient as comfortable as possible.