Micro test 3

Pathogenic: capacity to cause disease

Disease: altered state of health from the normal state

Infection: presence of multiple microbes in a body

-microbes associated with our bodies that do not produce disease under normal circumstances.

- exact compostion of normal flora varies from one individual to another.

• 1. microbial antagonism
• -competition
• -bacteriocins
• -waste such as lower pH

2. Production of vitamins

3. Stimulation of immune system

Broad spectrum ab's while a rapid tx destroy normal flora which can lead to a variety of complications.....?????

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Normal flora organisms that can cause disease when your immune system is down or the balance of the normal flora is upset.

• -immunocompromised host
• -introduction into unusual sites
• -upset of balance of normal flora

Endemic: constantly present in a population.

Epidemic: disease or other occurrence whose incidence is higher than expected within a region or population.

Symptoms: effects of a disease experienced by the patient.

Communicable diseases: diseases spread from an infected animal or person to another animal or person.

Acute: rapid onset, a short course

Chronic disease: (chronic infections- infections that develop slowly & persist for months or years)

Latent disease: (latent infections- infections where the infectious agent is present but not active)

• 1. Source > reservoirs
• 2. Mode of transmission:
• -thru vehicles (objects or fomites, air, food, water)
• -thru vectors (animals or insects)
• -direct contact w/carriers (sexual, physical contacts)

Infection aquired during hospitalization.

• 1. microbes in the hospital environment
• 2. compromised host
• 3. chain of transmission

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