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A snapshot of the summary - Basics of Infectious Diseases
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1 Lecture 1. General introduction
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What is a communicable infectious disease (ID)?Infectious disease that can be transmitted between persons
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What is a non-communicable infectious disease?Infectious disease not directly transmissible from one person to another
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What does emerging infectious disease mean? (EID)Disease appeared for the first time or existed previously, but is rapidly increasing
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Difference between pathogen and parasite:Pathogen: always associated with damage
Parasite: may be associated with damage -
Difference between infection and disease:Infection: pathogen invades, begins growing and reproducing within host
Disease: tissue is damaged or function is impaired, as a consequence of a pathogen. -
What are ways to prevent exposure to pathogen?Quarantaine, breaking transmission cycle
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What is a definitive host?Host in which pathogen reaches maturity and reproduces
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What is a transport host?Host in which pathogen undergoes no essential development
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What is a reservoir?Long-term natural host of a pathogen, don't cause disease
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What is the difference between common source
epidemic andpropagated epidemic ?Common source epidemic is the spread of an infectious disease via a common source (e.g. Contaminated water). All sick individuals because sick as a result of the common source.
In propagated epidemics, the disease is spread from human-to-human. The spread of a common source epidemic is much more sudden and rapidly. The spread of a propagated epidemic is more gradual.
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The following topics are covered in this summary
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virulence, r0, yld
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wnv, pathogens, encephalitis
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phagocytosis, virulent, dissemination
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developmental, reactivated, demography
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trypanosoma, leishmaniasis, nagana
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arthropods, blood-sucking, flavivirus
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optimal, consequential, economics
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insecticides, insecticide, arthropods
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antibiotic, antibiotics, inputs
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hpai, stakeholders, hcld
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fungi, septate, fungal
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cjd, ataxia, kuru
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phagocyte, process, prrs