103.3.1 PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE AND IMMUNIZATIONS| 174 QUESTIONS| WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
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C**rier -
is a person or
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Com***icable dis**se -
An illness due to a specific infectious agent or its toxic products that arises through transmission of that agent or its products from an infected person, animal or inanimate source to a susceptible host; either directly or indirectly through an intermediate plant or animal host, vector or the inanimate environment. correct answer: Communicable disease
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E**d*mic -
The occurrence, in a defined community or region, of cases of an illness (or an outbreak) with a frequency clearly in excess of normal expectancy. correct answer: Epidemic
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H**t -
A person or other living animal, including birds and arthro-pods, that affords subsistence or lodgment to an infectious agent under natural (as opposed to experimental) conditions. correct answer: Host
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In**b**ion pe**od -
is the time interval between initial contact with the infectious organism and the first appearance of symptoms associated with the infection. correct answer: Incubation period
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In***tion -
the entry and development or multiplication of an infectious agent in the body of persons or animals. correct answer: Infection
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In***tious Ag**t -
is an organism (virus, rickettsia, bacteria, fungus, protozoan or helminth) that is capable of producing infection or infectious disease. correct answer: Infectious Agent
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Mant**x t**erc**in sk*n t**t (TST) -
The standard method for detecting latent TB infection since the 1930s. correct answer: Mantoux tuberculin skin test (TST)
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N*s***mial in***tion -
is an infection occurring in a patient in a hospital or other health care facility in whom the infection was not present or incubating at the time of admission; or the residual of an infection acquired during a previous admission. correct answer: Nosocomial infection
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P***al of **try -
is the means of entry for an infectious agent into a host, e.g., breaks in the skin, respiratory tract, urinary tract, bloodstream, or gastrointestinal tract. correct answer: Portal of entry
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Res****ir -
indicates any person, animal, arthropod, plant, sub-stance—or combination of these—in which an infection agent normally lives and multiplies, on which it depends primarily for survival, and where it reproduces itself in such a manner that it can be transmitted to a susceptible host. correct answer: Reservoir
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S**ce**ible -
is a person or animal not possessing sufficient resistance against a particular infectious agent to prevent contracting infection or disease when exposed to the agent. correct answer: Susceptible
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S**u*lly tr***mi*ted in***'tion (STI) -
is a contagious disease transmitted by sexual contact. STIs exist in many forms and are among the most common communicable diseases. correct answer: Sexually transmitted infection (STI)
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