Agents of Infection
An outbreak of this disease prevented many from traveling to the 2016 Brazil Olympics.
What is Zika virus?
Antibodies passed from a mother to her child through breastmilk is an example of this type of short-term immunity.
What is passive immunization?
This value is used to measure the degree of infectivity of an agent.
What is Ro?
This government agency is responsible for licensing vaccines.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
The asymptomatic period of an infection that occurs between initial contact with the microbe and appearance of the first symptoms is termed this.
What is incubation period?
This protein coat surrounds the nucleic acid core of a virus to keep the genome stable during transmission.
What is a capsid?
Monocytes differentiate into this cell type as they migrate into tissues.
What is a macrophage?
An aggregation of cases of disease grouped in place and time at a rate greater than the expected number of disease instances is referred to as this.
What is a cluster?
This scientist is credited for developing the live-attenuated oral Polio vaccine.
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Who is Albert Sabin?
This type of infection typically occurs in immunocompromised individuals and is caused by common microbes.
What is an opportunistic infection?
The 2009 H1N1 outbreak is an example of this type of flu mutation.
What is antigenic shift?
The adaptive immune response is initiated when an activated antigen presenting cell (APC) transports antigen from the site of infection to this organ.
What is the draining lymph node?
A set of standard criteria for classifying whether a person has a particular disease, syndrome, or other health condition.
What is a case definition?
This type of vaccine contains only the antigens that best stimulate the immune system rather than an entire pathogen.
What is a subunit vaccine?
The ability of a microbe to cause disease is termed this.
What is pathogenicity?
What is Toxoplasma gondii?
B cells, but not T cells, are able to generate diversity through this mechanism.
What is somatic hypermutation?
The primary focus of this type of epidemiology is characterizing health events by time, place, and person.
What is descriptive epidemiology?
This common vaccine additive, used to stabilize the vaccine's active ingredients, has been known to rarely cause allergic reactions.
What is gelatin?
The presence of an infectious agent in the blood stream is defined as this.
What is septicemia?
Gram-positive bacteria stain a violet color due to the presence of a thick layer of this material in their cell walls.
What is peptidoglycan?
LPS on the surface of bacterial cells can activate this Toll-Like Receptor (TLR).
What is TLR4?
John Snow traced this as the source of the London Cholera outbreaks in the mid-1800s.
What is the Broad Street pump?
The first childhood vaccination program was launched during this U.S. president's term.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
An inanimate object capable of being an intermediate in the indirect transmission of an infectious agent.
What is a fomite?