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| the second smallest infectious agent (smallest kind that is thought of as an organism) |
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| ubiquitous one-celled organisms, spherical, spiral, or rod-shaped and appearing singly or in chains |
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| an agent capable of producing infection |
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| the proportion of individuals in a population having a disease. It is a statistical concept referring to the number of cases of a disease that are present in a particular population at a given time |
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| a cleared region in a bacterial culture, resulting from Iysis of bacteria by bacteriophages. |
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| the number of new cases per population in a given time period |
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| microorganism that is capable of causing disease |
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| an inanimate object that is capable of transmitting any disease, nor does it cause it |
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| an epidemic disease that was around 1918-1919 and killed over 20 million worldwide |
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| the measure of severity of a disease expressed as the proportion of people with the disease who become extremely ill of die |
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| one-celled organisms that are more complicated that bacteria and are always parasitic and act similarly to bacteria with significant differences (bigger and more complicated, and therefore smarter and harder to get rid of) |
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| the systematic, ongoing collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of heath data whose purpose is to gain knowledge of the patterns of the disease |
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| characteristics of a population including sex, race, or occupation |
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