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MICRO EXAM 4 UTA – PARKS
Questions and Answers

characteristics of infectious disease

✓ ~~~ -disease
✓ -infection
✓ -signs and symptoms
✓ -syndrome
✓ -signs and symptoms help direct towards diagnosis
✓ -some patients are asymptomatic/subclinical = only signs can be observed thru correct
testing
✓ *ex: patient w/herpes and no symptoms



disease

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



infection

✓ ~~~ -invasion of pathogen or parasite that lead to disease
✓ -evidence for infection comes from signs and symptoms



signs

✓ ~~~ -things that can be directly measured by clinician
-ex blood cell counts




symptoms

✓ ~~~ -things felt by patient that cannot be clinically measured
-ex nausea




syndrome

, ✓ ~~~ -groups of signs and symptoms that help indicate a particular disease



classification of disease

✓ ~~~ -WHO's international classification of diseases (IDC) is used globally to classify and
monitor diseases
-diseases can be: infectious, communicable, iatrogenic, nosocomial, zoonotic, non-

communicable, and non-infectious




infectious disease

✓ ~~~ -disease caused by direct effect of a pathogen



communicable disease

✓ ~~~ -capable of spreading person-to-person (contagious - easily spead)



iatrogenic disease

✓ ~~~ -disease acquired as result of medical procedure



nosocomial disease

✓ ~~~ -disease acquired from a hospital environment



zoonotic disease

✓ ~~~ -disease acquired from an animal



non-communicable disease

✓ ~~~ -disease obtained from non-living thing such as soil or contaminated object

,non-infectious disease

✓ ~~~ -disease not caused by pathogen



periods/stages of disease

✓ ~~~ -infectious disease follow 5 stages
1. incubation

2. prodromal

3. illness

4. decline

5. convalescence




incubation stage of disease

✓ ~~~ -initial entry of pathogen
-replication begins




prodromal stage of disease

✓ ~~~ -replication continues
-host shows signs and symptoms




illness stage of disease

✓ ~~~ -signs and symptoms are most severe in host



decline stage of disease

, ✓ ~~~ -pathogen number start to decrease
-host's immune system is weak and vulnerable to secondary infection




convalescence stage of disease

✓ ~~~ -host starts to recover



acute vs. chronic disease

✓ ~~~ -illness period can be variable
-acute disease

-chronic disease

-latent disease




acute disease

✓ ~~~ -relatively short
-hours, days, week




chronic disease

✓ ~~~ -longer time
-month, years, lifetime




latent disease

✓ ~~~ -comes in episodes
-pathogen replicates when disease is active

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