BIOS 242 Week 5 Concepts: The Immune System Epidemiology_Chamberlain

Week 5 Concepts: The Immune System Epidemiology Prepare: Epidemiology The principal government agency responsible for tracking infectious diseases in the United States is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. World Health Organization. National Institutes of Health. United States Department of Agriculture. Infection Control Committee. The study of the frequency and distribution of a disease in a defined population is ______. pathology epidemiology immunology clinical microbiology medicine The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention assigns the most virulent microbes known to cause human disease to biosafety level 4. True False Self-Check: Epidemiology Drag the label to the following diagram according to the type of outbreak shown. Self-Check: Epidemiology Terms The ____ is the total number of persons afflicted with infectious disease. sporadic epidemic chronic pandemic prevalence This study source was downloaded by from CourseH on :33:24 GMT -06:00 A ____________ is an epidemic occurring over multiple continents. epidemic prevalence pandemic sporadic chronic Reflect: Epidemiology The prevalence rate of tuberculosis in one particular county in Texas is 7/1000 people, while the incidence rate for 2011 is 2/1000 people. Analyze this data and summarize the situation. Incidence rate should really be higher than prevalence rate because it includes all new cases for the year. The data were collected incorrectly because the two values should match. Prevalence rate is higher than incidence rate because the number of people still alive with tuberculosis is higher because of better treatments. Prevalence rate and incidence rate cannot be determined for the same disease. The number of new cases of a disease in a population over a specific period of time compared with the healthy population is the ______. incidence rate prevalence rate epidemic rate mortality rate morbidity rate A disease that has a steady frequency over time in a particular geographic location is referred to as ______. pandemic epidemic endemic sporadic chronic The study of the frequency and distribution of a disease in a defined population is ______. immunology epidemiology pathology medicine clinical microbiology