What are the 5 major causative pathogens of FBD? - Bacteria
Viruses
Parasites
Biological Toxins
Elements/Chemicals
T/F: Organisms multiply in the GIT when you have a FB intoxication - False. Organisms enter the body
with food or water and multiply in GIT when you have a FB infection - not intoxication.
T/F: The incubation period for a food borne intoxication is typically around 24 hours - False. The
incubation period for a food borne intoxication is < 4 hours.
Is it FB infection or intoxication that typically is accompanied by a fever? - FB infection
What are 5 host-related risk factors for FBD? - Age
Level of Nutrition
Concurrent Diseases
Pregnancy
Concurrent medication
What are 5 environment-related risk factors for FBD? - Occupation
Race/Ethnicity
Social Activities
Recent Travel
Socio-economic status
Food availability
,An ___________ disease is one that is always present in the population at a predictable level of
occurrence. - endemic
An ____________ disease is one with an unpredictably high occurrance in a population - more than
normal. - epidemic
A _____________ disease is an global ___________.
a) pandemic, endemic
b) epidemic, endemic
c) pandemic, sporadic
d) pandemic, epidemic
e) endemic, sporadic - d) pandemic, epidemic
The attack rate of a disease is proportion of ____________ individuals who develop ________________.
- a) exposed, immunity
b) not exposed, immunity
c) not exposed, clinical disease
d) exposed, clinical disease
e) exposed, diarrhea
The attack rate for the mayo given the following information is:
Total people who ate mayo which tested (+) for listeria = 100
People ate mayo and developed vomiting or diarrhea = 48
People ate mayo and did not develop disease = 52 - AR = [D+| E+]/ [(D+)+(D-)/ E+]
AR = 48/ 100
AR = 0.48 = 48%
The _________ is the proportion of cases in the population at a specific point in time.
, a) prevalence
b) incidence
c) occurrence
d) count
e) attack rate - a) prevalence
The ______________ is the proportion of ___________ cases in a defined population during a specific
time period.
There are 2 additional less discussed temporal patterns (besides the primary 4), what are they? - Secular
trends
Seasonal varitaion
The 3 types of epidemics are:
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