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| the study of the cause of a disease |
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| the development of disease |
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| colonization of the body by pathogens |
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| an abnormal state in which the body is not functioning normally |
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| may be present for days, weeks, or months |
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| permanently colonize the host |
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| one benefits, other unaffected |
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| one benefits at the expense of the other |
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| not dangerous until there is a cut or injury |
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| a competition between microbes |
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| protects host by: occupying niches that pathogens might occupy, producing acids, and producing bacteriocins |
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| live microbes applied to or ingested into the body, intended to exert a beneficial effect |
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| normal microbiota on the human body |
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| mouth, eyes, nose, throat, skin, large intestine, urinary and respiratory systems. |
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| a change in the body function that is felt by a patient as a result of disease |
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| a change in the body that can be measured or observed as a result of disease |
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| a specific group of signs and symptoms that accompany a disease |
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| a disease that is spread from one host to another |
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| a disease that is easily spread from one host to another |
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| a disease that is not transmitted from one host to another |
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| fraction of a population that contracts a disease during a specific time |
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| fraction of a population having a specific disease at a given time |
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| disease that occurs occasionally in a population |
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| disease constantly present in a population |
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| disease acquired by many hosts in a given area in a short time |
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| immunity in most of the population |
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| symptoms between acute and chronic |
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| disease with a period of no symptoms when the causative agent is inactive |
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| pathogens are limited to a small area of the body |
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| an infection throughout the body |
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| systemic infection that began as a local infection |
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| toxic inflammatory condition arising from the spread of microbes, especially bacteria or their toxins, from a focus of infection |
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| growth of bacteria in the blood |
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| acute infection that causes the initial illness |
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| opportunistic infection after a primary infection |
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| no noticeable symptoms or signs |
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| make the body more susceptible to disease |
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| continual sources of infection |
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| humans, animal, nonliving |
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| requires close association between infected and susceptible host |
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| transmission via airborne droplets |
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| transmission by an inanimate reservoir |
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| arthropods that transmit disease |
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| arthropods carry pathogens on feet and biologically pathogen reproduces in vector |
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| acquired by hospitals (5-15% patients) |
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| the study of where and when disease occured |
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| incidence of a specific notifiable disease |
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| deaths from notifiable disease |
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| number of people affected in relation to the total population in a given time period |
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| number of deaths from a disease in relation to the population in a given time |
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