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Koch's postulate applications? |
Helps determine etiology and identify causes of emerging disease(s) |
1st step in treatment and prevention |
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Communicable diseases? (Examples) |
Rotavirus, measles, chickenpox, flu, strep, HPV, Hep B, and pneumonic plague |
Contagious = spreads EASILY |
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Main categories of disease reservoirs. |
Human, Animal, and Nonliving |
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Cholera reservoir? |
Nonliving (water) |
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Reservoir 'carrier' description. |
Asymptomatic infected human |
Still infectious = carrier |
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Methods of disease transmission. |
Contact, Vehicle, and Vector. |
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Contact disease transmission |
Direct, Indirect, and Droplet |
Droplet = less than one meter |
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Fomite |
Type of contact transmission (indirect) of infective microbes |
Inanimate infectious object |
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Vehicle disease transmission |
Air, Water, Food -borne |
Air = farther than 1 meter |
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Vector disease transmission |
Mechanical (on vector) and Biological (in vector) |
Via living things (i.e. athropods) |
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Mechanical vs Biological (examples) |
Flies/cockroaches vs fleas/ticks/mosquitoes |
Carried from trash vs bites/saliva |
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Malaria (pathogen) |
Plasmodium falciparum |
Protozoal parasite (intracellular) |
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Malaria (vector type) |
Mechanical |
Parenteral portal of entry via anopheles mosquitoes |
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John Snow |
Started fields of epidemiology and infection control |
Father of epidemiology |
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Disease Prevalence. |
Total number of people (old and new) |
Keeps rising on line graph |
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Disease incidence. |
New cases during a certain period. |
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Endemic definition. |
Constantly present in population. |
Versus epidemic (abnormal) and pandemic (worldwide) |
