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mastery quiz 2
need to know for second mastery quiz
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Health Care
Undergraduate 1
10/27/2009

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