103.3.1 PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE AND IMMUNIZATIONS| 174 QUESTIONS| WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

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103.3.1 PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE AND IMMUNIZATIONS| 174 QUESTIONS| WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS Preventative Medicine terms C**rier - is a person or animal that harbors a specific infectious agent i... n the absence of discernible clinical disease. correct answer: Carrier Preventative Medicine terms 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 Preventative Medicine terms 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 Preventative Medicine terms 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 Preventative Medicine terms 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 Preventative Medicine terms In***tion - the entry and development or multiplication of an infectious agent in the body of persons or animals. correct answer: Infection Preventative Medicine terms 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 Preventative Medicine terms 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) Preventative Medicine terms 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 Preventative Medicine terms 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 Preventative Medicine terms 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 [Show More]

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