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Invasion and multiplication of microorganisms in body tissues - causes local cellular injury |
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How does infection cause cellular injury? |
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Competitive metabolism DNA Replication Toxins Antigen-Antibody Response |
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Well-defined abnormalities affecting structure & fxn of an organ, organ system, tissue, or whole individual |
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T or F: Clinical signs can be present in a 'sub-clinical disease' |
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False (i.e. only present with clinical disease) |
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In which type of disease are symptoms overt? |
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What are the classifications of disease? |
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DAMNIT Degenerative, Anomalous, Metabolic, Neoplastic, Infection, Toxic/Traumatic |
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Describe Degenerative disease |
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Structure is altered by age, use/misuse, or biochemically |
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Describe Anomalous disease |
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Abnormal structure and/or fxn - may be developmental, congenital, or genetic |
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Describe Metabolic disease |
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Due to nutrition, toxins, or hormonal activity that alters normal metabolism |
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Describe Neoplastic disease |
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Abnormal growth of cells @ expense of normal tissue structure & fxn (i.e. cancer) |
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Describe Infectious disease |
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Caused by microorganisms that invade the body and damage normal s&f (i.e. a pathogen, bacteria, viruses, parasitic) |
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Describe traumatic disease |
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A mechanical injury (i.e. broken bone) |
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The study of the causes of disease |
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T or F: The cause of a disease is synonymous with the eliologic agent |
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Compare cause & causitive agent |
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Causitive agent: pathogen (bac., virus, etc)
Cause: other factors (like epidemiological triad) |
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The development of a disease |
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Any disease-producing microorganism/material |
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The study of patterns of disease in a population
- The study of Frequency, Distribution, and Determinants of Health and Disease |
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Epidemiology is to a population, as pathogenesis is to a(n) _______. |
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T or F: Epi is simply the study of disease |
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False, also **productivity** of disease |
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What are Koch's Postulates? |
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1. Isolate pathogen of sick animal 2. Infect healthy animal with this pathogen ** If it causes same disease as sick animal... 3. Re-isolate same pathogen |
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Why use Koch's Postulates? |
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To know if a certain pathogen is the cause of a disease |
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What are the classifications of infectious causes of disease? |
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Bacteria, Viruses, Prions, Mycotic, and Parasites |
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T or F: A virus is the same size as a bacterium |
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Waayy false, bacteria are massive in comparison |
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- contain some nucleic acid - require host cell to replicate - unresponsive to traditional antimicrobial agents |
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- like cells - non-pathogenic, pathogenic, or opportunistic - can replicate outside a host - mostly resistant to antimicrobials, but can devel. resistance |
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- Prion proteins (PrPs) that are improperly folded resulting in infectious or genetic disease - resistant to proteases - somewhat host specific - cause TSE (Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy) |
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What are mycotic infections? |
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fungal infections, like ringworm |
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T or F: Parasites are only internal |
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False, they can be internal, external, or intracellular |
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The degree of pathogenicity of a pathogen - the severity or "fitness" of a pathogen |
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It is what predisposes an animal to infectious disease |
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What is the goal/purpose of a pathogen? |
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To enhance disease transmission |
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Define direct transmission |
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contact between two animals |
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Define vector transmission |
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Agent requires an invertebrate host for it's own life cycle and transmission |
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An inanimate object (i.e. boots) or one that is alive but is a passive carrier (i.e. human hands) |
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What are some examples of disease being transmitted using infectious secretions or excretions? |
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Respiratory droplets, saliva, puss ("purulent exudate"), feces, urine |
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What are the TWO broad types of disease transmission? |
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What is horizontal transmission? |
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b/w animals of the same generation - infectious or contagious |
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What is vertical transmission? |
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b/w animals of one generation and the succeeding generation - dam to offspring - in utero, or via colostrum/milk |
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What is the difference b/w contagious vs infectious? |
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Contagious: capable of being transmitted from animal to animal
An infectious disease can either be contagious (ebola) or non-contagious (tetanus) |
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What is the epidemiological triad and why is it important for disease pathogenesis? |
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Host, Agent, Environmental
- all three must be in perfect balance for disease to occur |
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What are some host factors affecting disease determination? |
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- immune status (innate/acquired, affected by environment) - herd immunity - age (inevitable degen., change in prod. lvl., immune status, phys state) - genetic - physiologic state (preg., lactating) - Production lvl - Nutr'l status |
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What are some agent factors affecting disease determination? |
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- virulence (can depend on cell surface & metabolic properties) - pathogen challenge (amount, environment) |
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What is the difference b/w necessary and sufficient cause? |
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Necessary: Disease will not occur without this factor
Sufficient: if present, disease WILL occur |
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T or F: Disease is almost always multifactorial |
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Animal doesn't have a clinical disease, but is has the potential to transmit an infectious
May be: - amsymptomatic (never diseased) - incubating the disease (eventually/intermittently affected) - convalescing/recovering |
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the condition of being diseased - the amount of disease (frequency) |
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the proportion of animals with a specific disease that die from it |
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The predicted/expected frequency of a disease in a pop (i.e. common cold) |
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Occurrence of (non/infectious) disease in a population that exceeds the expected level |
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Disease occurs infrequently, and not readily predictable |
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What are the measures of disease occurrence? |
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- Prevalence (prop. of # diseased animals/all animals) - Incidence (prop. of # new cases/# animals at risk) |
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In calculating a denominator for the Incidence equation, what would we factor into deciding which species are "at risk?" |
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- not at risk if already diseased/infected - not at risk if can't experience the outcome of interest (i.e. bulls can't get mastitis/pregnant, or open females can't abort) |
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Briefly explain the iceberg concept |
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The number of infected/diseased individuals in a population can be higher than what is observed, because of the potential presence of sub-clinical disease |
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In the tipping point concept, what is at either end of the scale that, if not balanced properly, could lead to disease? |
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Protective factors at one end, promoting health.
Risk factors at the other, promoting disease |
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