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36 Cards in this Set
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The study of the occurrence, distribuion, and determinants of health and disease in a populaion.
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epidemiology
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definition of prevalence
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what is normal
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mortality vs. morbidity
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death vs. illness
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3 types of epidemiology
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descriptive, analytical, experimental
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formula for Risk(exposed)
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a/(a+b)
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what 2 things does RR stand for
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relative risk, risk ratio
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formula for RR
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Risk(exposed)/Risk(unexposed)
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what does OR stand for and what is the formula
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odds ratio=ad/bc (like the bible!)
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AR% stands for what
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attributable risk percent in the exposed
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what is the formula for AR%
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AR/Risk(exposed)x100
(RR-1)/RR x 100 (OR-1)/OR x 100 |
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risk difference aka _____
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attributable risk
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attributable risk aka _____
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risk difference
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PAR stands for what
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population attributable risk; Risk(total)-Risk(unexposed)
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PAR% formula
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PAR/Risk(total) x 100
[(Pe)(RR-1)]/[1+(Pe)(RR-1)] |
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what does Pe stand for
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the effective proportion of the population exposed to the risk factor
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what does NFU stand for
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neflowmetric turbidity unit
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cryptosporidium parvum is resistant to what treatment
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chlorine
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what is an effective killer of C. parvum oocysts?
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ozone generator
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high # of pathogens in what 2 phyla
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proteobacteria and firmicutes
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what 3 properties are considered when prokaryotes are grouped into the same phylum
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similar mol % G+C; 16S and 23S ribosomes; DNA must show 70% reassociation
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what does FISH stand for
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fluorescent in situ hybridization
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which is of adequate length, universally distributed, functionally constant, sufficiently conserved (16S or 23S)
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16S
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5 major classes in the phylum proteobacteria
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alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon
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T or F, morphology is a decisive characteristic in taxonomy
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false
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most gram negative bacteria are in which phylum
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proteobacteria
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5 genus in alphaproteobacteria
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WAREO, wolbachia, anaplasma, rickettsia, orienta, ehrlichia
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2 genus in betaprotebacteria
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nice betafish, neisseria, burkholderia
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5 genus in gammaproteobacteria
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very powerful hulk eats people, vibrio, pseudomonas, haemophilus, enterobacteriaceae, pasteurella
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3 classes in firmicutes
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C my biceps, clostridia, mollicutes, bacilli
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4 genus in bacilli
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bacillus, listeria, staph, strep
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4 genus in actinobacteria
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CMAN act; corynebacterium, mycobacterium, actinomyces, nocardia
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3 genus in spirochaetes
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twirl, little ballerina; treponema, leptospira, borrelia
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epsilonproteobacteria (2 genus)
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hola chiquita, helicobacter, campylobacter
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which are normally gram stained: serum, discharge, CSF
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discharge and CSF
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what is an example of a common source outbreak
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food poisoning
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what is an example of a propogated epidemic
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common cold/flu
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