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| occurrence of infections assoc in time or location among specific group |
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| ill person who is not assoc with other a group |
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| more than one case grouped in some fashion |
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| separation of infected to prevent acquisition by others during period of communicabiity |
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| restriction of persons exposed to infected source during incubation period of disease, to observe if disease develops |
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| where (person, animal, environ) organism persists normally in nature |
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| From whom an infection is directly acquired (person, animal, object) |
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| mechanism by which infectious agent is acquired |
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| microbacterial organism that can produce an interaction with the host |
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| production of interaction with host |
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| ability of an infectious agent to produce disease |
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| Organisms that live on or within another living organism |
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| an organism that is present but ordinarily will not cause disease |
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| presence of an organism without infection |
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| microorganisms routinely found at different sites of the body without causing infection |
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| harboring an organism that is potentially pathogenic |
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| quantification of the degree of pathogenicity of an infectious agent as reflected by the severity of the disease produced |
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| ability of an agent to develop or multiply in a host |
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| ability of organism to enter the victim |
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| causes infection only when lessened patient defenses present oppurtunity to infect |
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| caused by organisms that are part of the individual's own endogenous flora (ultimate oppurtunistic pathogens) |
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| patient who, by nature of disease or therapy given for it, has impaired resistance to infection |
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| earliest stage of disease, where symptoms/signs may be vague, hard to recognize as characteristic of given pathogen |
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| signs/symptoms diminish/disappear |
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| Entire time when symptoms/signs are present |
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| interval between exposure to inf. agent and the onset of the first symptoms/signs of an illness |
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| time during which a person, animal, arthropod is able to transmit an organism to another |
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| interval between successive cases of infection |
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| interval from infection until the organism can be demonstrated |
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| interval in which the presence of the organism can be recognized |
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| time between the acute phase of the infection and subsequent progrssion of illness |
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| suspensions of particles in the air consisting partially or wholly of microorganisms |
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| particles of widely varying size, usually large that arise from reservoirs of infection from soil, floors, bedding, clothes... suspended for short amount of time... acq by inhalation/settling |
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| Medium sized particles, direct acquistion from projection by another person's coughing, sneezing, siniging, talking... travel only short distances |
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| smallest airborne particle, dried droplets with agents in suspension... can remain suspended in air for days |
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| site of invasion for many pathogenic agents, organisms can only be removed by immunologic defenses |
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| continous and is basis for annual epidemics & need to continually monitor influenza infections worldwide & change annual composition of vaccine |
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| less frequent, caused past pandemics |
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