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Infectious diseases
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Undergraduate 2
01/24/2014
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Term
Pathogen
 Definition
Infectious agent is a disease causing organism
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Contagious or communicable
 Definition
transmitted by human contact
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epidemiology
 Definition
study of transmission occurrence distribution and control of disease
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Incidence
 Definition
number of new cases of disease in a population
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prevalence
 Definition
number of existing cases of a disease known
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endemic
 Definition
when a disease always occurs at low levers in a population
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epidemic
 Definition
occurs in unusually large number over a specific area
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