Modes of Transmission
An immediate transfer of a contagious agent from one body to another
What is direct transmission?
A person whom has come in contact and or carries a disease and who has for a while
What is an active carrier?
Being able to prevent a disease before it occurs
What is primary prevention?
A nonliving object that can retain an infectious agent and be a source of transmission.
What is a fomite?
An individual who has been determined to have a disease
What is a case?
Happens when an agent is carried by air currents, water, or food to a host.
What is indirect transmission?
A person whom has an infectious disease and still contagious even in the healing phase
What is a convalescent carrier?
Action and or change within an individuals behavior
What is active primary prevention?
An animal such as tick or mite that carries and transmits an infectious agent from one host to another
What is a vector?
The first identified case of disease in the population
What is a primary case?
Occurs when a person talks or sneezes and transfers the pathogen to a host
What is airborne transmission?
A person whom carries a disease yet shows no symptoms towards that specific disease
What is a healthy carrier?
No need for a behavioral change within the individual
What is passive primary prevention?
The domain where an infectious agent lives, grows, and multiplies.
What is a reservoir?
The first ever case identified and or spotted by an epidemiologist
What is an index case
Occurs when a flea and or tick transmits the pathogen to a host
What is Vector-borne transmission?
A person whom has just come into contact with a disease, is showing symptoms, and is able to transmit the disease
What is an incubatory disease?
Detection and or observation of an upcoming disease
What is secondary prevention?
An infectious organism that can be passed on to individuals through direct contact
What is zoonosis?
An individual who has become infected by a disease through the primary case
What is a secondary case?
The change of the pathogen within the host it is currently in and before being transmitted to another host
What is biological transmission?
A person whom has a disease and is able to spread it whenever and wherever
What is an intermittent carrier?
Prevention of incapability by providing support to any damage that a disease has caused
What is tertiary prevention?
A nonliving substance such as food or clothing that that carries the infectious agent from the reservoir to the host
What is a vehicle?
A person or a group of people whom all have the symptoms for a disease yet have not been diagnosed for a particular disease
What is a suspect case?