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| what are examples of subcellular infectious agents? |
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| what are examples of unicellular infectious agents? |
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| what are examples of multicellular infectious agents? |
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| which infectious agent can be either unicellular or multicellular? |
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| what are three subtypes of symbiotic relationships? |
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| mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism |
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| infectious diseases can occure as what four main types of pattern? |
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| sporadic, endemic, epidemic, and pandemic. |
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| What are the teo types of epidemics? |
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| Common-source epidemics and propagated epidemics. |
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| What are two types of reservoirs for infectious diseases? |
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| Human reservoirs for infectious diseases can be what three types? |
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| Active carriers, healthy carriers, and chronic carriers. |
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| What is thought to be the most common cause of immunosuppression globally? |
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| What are nosocomial infections? |
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| Infections acquired as a result of health care. |
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| What are two subtypes of the immune response? |
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| The nonspecific response and the specific response. |
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| What are three characteristics of the specific immune response? |
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| Diversity, specificity, and memory. |
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| What are the basic subtypes of the specific immune response? |
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| Humoral immunity and cell-mediated immunity. |
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| What are four general types of vaccines currently in use? |
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| Live attenuated, killed, subunit, and toxoid vaccines. |
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| When sufficient numbers of group members have been vaccinated that this prevents the spread of disease to non-vaccinated members. |
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