Paradise of pathogens
This pathogen is a single-celled organism with a cell wall and reproduces rapidly. It causes diseases like strep throat, UTIs, and shingles.
Bacteria
This type of disease is caused by a pathogen (micro-organism).
Pathogenic
This is the protein structure that surrounds the genetic material of a virus.
Capsid
Not a Game of Thrones character: one of the founders of epidemiology, he traced the source of a cholera outbreak to a single public water pump.
John Snow
A woman with measles coughs in an elevator. She gets off and later, a man gets on. He doesn't touch anything but he breathes. He is later diagnosed with measles. Which method of transmission is measles?
Airborne
This pathogen isn't considered living because it uses the hosts cells to make its parts, eventually causing host cell death. It causes diseases like influenza, herpes, and measles.
Virus
This type of disease is caused by the lack of a certain nutrient.
Deficiency
These are the two ways to classify viruses that infect animals.
DNA or RNA, and single-stranded or double-stranded
Not pronounced "cough": he discovered the rod-shaped bacteria in the blood of cattle that died anthrax, and established that germs could cause a specific disease.
Robert Koch
An object or surface that, when contaminated with or exposed to infectious agents can transfer disease to a new host.
Fomite
Most are multi-cellular and while they can be dangerous, we also eat some of them. They can cause diseases like athlete's foot and ringworm.
Fungi
This type of disorder occurs when a mutation affects your genes or chromosomes.
Hereditary
Draw the two main shapes that viral protein shells can come in.
Helical and icosahedral.
You can thank him for your mouthwash and for antiseptic surgery: he began treating surgical wounds with a phenol solution and sterilizing surgical equipment
Joseph Lister
This type of disease is constantly present in a population or region with relatively low spread, such as malaria in tropical regions.
Endemic.
These are single-celled organisms that have a nucleus and usually live in water. They cause diseases like malaria and toxoplasmosis.
Protozoa
This type of disorder occurs due to malfunctioning organs or systems.
Physiological
State the first step of viral reproduction. (Draw it for extra points)
Entry and uncoating.
His name sounds like a magic spell, but he was also magic for mothers: an early pioneer of antiseptic techniques, he discovered that infection could be drastically reduced by requiring doctors wash their hands.
Ignaz Semmelweis
Name one mode of transmission. Give an example of a pathogen that spreads this way, and how to protect against it.
One-to-one contact: direct, indirect, droplet
Non-contact: airborne, vehicle, vector
Made of a single protein, these scary pathogens can change a normal protein to an abnormal shape by binding to it, creating a chain reaction that spreads the disease. This is the agent that caused mad cow disease.
Prions
Pirates often got this disease, and you could too if you don't eat enough fruits and vegetables.
Scurvy, deficiency disease
A retrovirus has this type of genome.
RNA
She wasn't in our lessons, but deserves a shout-out: this pharmacologist researched the structure of viral DNA, developing anti-viral drugs to combat diseases like AIDS.
Gertrude Elion
Draw an epidemiological triangle and label the five main parts.
Middle of triangle: name of the disease
Three points: host, agent, environment
Side between host and agent: transmission