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Disease - a condition where normal structure and/or function are damaged or impaired



Infection - invasion of pathogen or parasite that lead to disease



Signs - things that can be directly measured by clinician (e.g. body temperature)



Symptoms - things felt by patient that cannot be clinically measured (e.g. nausea)



Syndrome - groups of signs and symptoms that help indicate a particular disease



Signs and symptoms help direct towards: - Diagnosis



Asymptomatic/subclinical - only signs can be observed through correct testing



WHO's International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is used globally to: - classify and monitor diseases



Infectious - disease is directly affected by pathogens



Communicable - capable of spreading person-to-person



Iatrogenic - acquired as result of medical procedure



Nosocomial - acquired from hospital setting



Zoonotic - acquired from animal

, Non-communicable - obtained from non-living thing such as soil or contaminated object



Non-infectious - not caused by pathogen



Periods of Disease - 1) Incubation

2) Prodromal

3) Illness

4) Decline

5) Convalescence



Incubation - intial entry of pathogen; replication begins



Prodromal - Replication continues; host shows signs and symptoms



Illness - signs and symptoms are most severe in host



Decline - pathogen number starts to decrease; host's immune system is weak and vulnerable to
secondary infection



Convalescence - host starts to recover



Acute disease - relatively short; influenza



Chronic disease - longer time; cancer, HIV



Latent disease - comes in episodes; pathogen replicates when disease is active; herpes



Koch's Postulates - set of standards that must be met to demonstrate that X pathogen causes X disease

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