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1)General subjective term "not feeling well"
2)Body invated by *pathogen either apprent or innapropriate
*something that causes disease |
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1)Conditions that impair normal tissue functions
2)Colelction of signs and symptoms |
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3 Distinct features of disease? |
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A sign is an objective evidence of disease, it is something that can be seen (ex, increase heart rate/rapid breathing) |
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Is subjective evidence of disease, it is a feeling (ex, nausea or headache) |
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Collection of signs and symptoms (ex, Austism/Down's Syndrome) |
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Explain: Infectious Disease |
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Contagious and Communicable |
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- non- contagious
- non-communicable
- chronic
- degenerative
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1)Addictions
2)Cogenital anomalies |
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1) Alcohol
2)Fetal Alc. Syndrome/ Heart Defect |
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1)Asthma
2)Caused by treatment: Infection |
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What is in a disease agent? |
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Those conditions that must be present or absent for the disease to occur
-present = virus
AKA= Pathogen
-absent= lack of vit D |
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Infectious Disease Agents
Define- Communicable
(Name 3)
Define- Non-Communicable
(Name 3) |
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Communicable- Infectious or contagious
1) measles
2)HIV
3)gonorrhea
Non-Communicable- Non-infectious/non-contagious
1)cancer
2)diabetes
3)heart diseases |
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How do pathogens cause disease? |
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- enter hosts body
- ADHERE to specific host cells, then
- INVADE and COLONIZE host tissues, then
- INFLICT and DAMAGE- disrupt cells by releasing toxins
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1)True Pathogens
2) Opportunistic Pathogen |
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1)influenza, virus, plague, shigella
2) HPV/ Staph/ Ecoli |
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Infectious Disease Agents
1) Bacteria 2) Viruses 3) Fungi 4) Protozoa 5) Helminths 6) Prions
Give ex of each |
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1)Lyme disease 2) Flu 3)Ath. Foot 4)Malaria 5) roundworm 6) mad cow disease |
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What are Helminths?
3 Helminths infections? |
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Worms that enter boyd through open wound into intestines
1) roundworm
2)pinworm
3)tapeworm |
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1) What is a prion?
2)What disease is cattle associated with?
3)How was the disease transmitted? |
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1) Protein found in animal brains
2)mad cow disease
3)consuming animal beef
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3 characteristics of infectious disease agents (9 total) DEFINE EACH:
1)Immungenicity
2)Infectivity
3)Pathogenicity |
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1) ability to provoke an imune system
2)ability to establish an infection (e.coli)
3)ability to produce clinical disease (gohnorrea) |
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3 characteristics of infectious disease agents (9 total) DEFINE EACH:
4)Virulence
5)Suitable environment
6) Host range
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4)ability to produce severe disease or death (flu)
5)hot,warm,dark,damp
6)single and multiple hosts |
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3 characteristics of infectious disease agents (9 total) DEFINE EACH:
7) recrudensence
8) Latency
9) Antigenetic Drift+Shift
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7)reactivation of latent or dormant infection- reoccurance
8) to be dormant / to survive for a long period
- how long it lasts?
9)random evolution changes- viruses can change |
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Drift- minor change in antigenetic structure (reason flu vaccines somehwhat work)
Shift- major change in antigenetic structure (reason flu vaccines don't work) |
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1)Direct Transmission
2)Indirect Transmission |
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1)Kisses and sneezes
2)
- Airborne
- Vehicle/ Vector borne
- Small particles in air (flea or fly)
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1)Vector
2)Carrier
3)Reservior |
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1) animal that carries the disease without having it
2)person/animal with disease, potential source or infection
3)place disease enters |
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1)Active nature
2)Artificial active
3)Passive natural
4) Passive artificial |
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What type of immunity is best for epidemics? |
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What are the stages of the Spectrum of Disease? At what point can a diagnosis be accurately made? |
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- stage of susceptibility
- stage of subclinical disease
- stage of clinical disease
- stage of recovery, disability, or death
Stage of Clinical Disease |
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What are the elements of the "chain of infection?" |
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- pathogenic
- reservoir
- means of escape
- mode of transmission
- means of entry
- host susceptibility
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What are the 3 suggested public health methods for controlling the spread of infectious disease? |
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- immunization
- isolation treatment
- blocking transmission
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What is an emerging disease and what are the 10 emerging diseases? |
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Diseases that have newly appeared in a population or have existed but are rapidly increasing in incidence or geographic range.
West nile virus
AIDS
Ecoli
Lassa
Lyme
Hantavirus
Necrotizing Fascitis
Mad Cow disease
ebola- Marburg
Influenza |
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What is a re-emerging disease? What are the 3 re-emerging diseases with the greatest worldwide prevalence? |
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age-old diseases that have increased its prevalence again.
Tuberculosis
cholera
malaria |
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To what conditions/situations can we attribute the increase in these emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases? |
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- Drug resistance
- Poverty
- Breakdwon of public health measure
- environmental changes
- travel and commerce
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what are the 10 recommendations by CDC to prevent the spread of infectious diseases? |
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- Wash hands often
- Get vaccinated
- use antibiotics
- stay at home when infectious
- prepare food carefully
- disinfect "hot zones" at home
- practice safe sex
- dont share personal items
- travel wisely
- keep pets healthy or dont have them around you
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What is a non-infectious disease and what are the common agents most often associated with non-infectious diseases? |
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Are not communicated from person to person and are not ude to disease-causing organisms.
Chemical- bee sting, poison ivy
Physical-heat, radiation
Psychological-noise, addictions
Social
Genetic |
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Diffrence btwn risk factor and casual factor? |
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an evvironmental or behavior factor that is associated with increasing the risk of a particular illness or of a cause of death.
is one that has been established beyond reasonable doubt as a causal agent of an illness. |
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