Infection Reservoirs Flashcards

A source that is living or an inanimate object that provides a pathogen with adequate conditions for survival, multiplication, and an opportunity for transmission.

People with signs and symptoms of a disease that can transmit the disease.

<p>Zoonoses</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Soil and water.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A transmission of a disease by direct physical contact between the source and a susceptible host.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A transmission of a disease from its reservoir to a susceptible host by means of a nonliving organism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A nonliving organism that can indirectly transmit a disease, e.g., cup, tissue, syringe.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A type of transmission in which microbes are spread in droplets less than one meter from the reservoir to the host.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A type of transmission of disease agents by a medium such as water, food, or air.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Animals that carry pathogens from one host to another.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A type of transmission where animals carry pathogens on their feet, where a host may touch the pathogen and pick it up.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A type of transmission where the animal vector bites the infected person and the host is now infected.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Health care associated infection.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An individual whose resistance to an infection is impaired by disease therapy or burns.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Diseases that are new, increasing in incidence, or showing the potential to increase in the near future.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The study of where and when disease occurs and how they are transmitted in populations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Collection of all data that describes occurrences of the disease.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Analyses of a particular disease to determine its probable cause.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Involves a hypothesis and controlled experiment about a particular disease.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Center for Disease Control and Prevention.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The incidence of a specific notifiable disease.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The number of deaths from a notifiable disease.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A disease for which physicians are required to report occurrences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The number of people affected in relation to the total population at a given point in time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The number of deaths from a disease in relation to the number of people at a given time.</p> Signup and view all the answers