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| Abnormal vital function involving any part, system or structure in an organism |
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| Communicable, transmitted disease |
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| Invasion of body by pathogenic organism |
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| Source or causative agent of disease |
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| Course of disease on a cellular or organ level |
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| Time between exposure to disease and onset of symptoms |
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| How deadly/severe the agent |
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| Signs of disease that are visible |
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| Natural habitat for that disease; where that organism can normal be found (animate or not) |
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Most common
Most relevant
Involves close physical contact |
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No close physical contact
AKA Vehicle Transmission |
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Inanimate object that transmits a disease
Indirectly transmitted agents must be able to survive adverse physical environment |
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| Indirect contact that travels through the air in droplet form |
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Invertebrate animals that transmit infection
Can be mechanical (animal fomite)
Can be involved in microorganism lifecycle
EX: Lyme disease |
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| How do microorganisms move out of a host? |
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Excretions: tears, oral, nasal, ocular discharge, urine, feces, milk
Blood or tissues |
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| How do microorganisms move into a host? |
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Mucus membranes: nasal,, eye, genital, oral, respiratory
Ingestion
Injection |
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| What organisms cause disease? |
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| Bacteria, virus, fungi/yeast, protozoa, multicellular parasites, prion |
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| What are non living causes of disease? |
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| Genetics, toxins, nutrition/metabolic, injury |
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Single celled microorganism
3 basic groups: harmless, beneficial, pathogenic
3 shapes: rod, coccus, spiral |
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| Dormant/resistant form of bacteria |
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Bad news wrapped in protein
Obligate intracellular parasite
Submicroscopic
RNA or DNA |
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Produced by disease
Yeast=single cell
Fungi=multicellular |
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More complicated single cell microorganism
Extracellular parasites |
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