Answers
Question: Incidence
Correct Answer: Number of new infection cases
Question: Prevelance
Correct Answer: number of active ongoing infections
Question: hospital acquired or health care acquired infection
Correct Answer: infection originates within clinical environment (poor hand hygiene)
Question: *Innate immunity
Correct Answer: nonspecific and present at birth (getting antibodies from breast milk)
Question: *adaptive immunity
Correct Answer: sensitized T and B lymphocytes which have memory and specificity
Question: Portals of entry
Correct Answer: 1. skin - best barrier 2. respiratory tract 3. gastrointestinal tract 4. genitourinary tract 5.
blood-blood transmission 6. maternal-fetal transmission
Question: *Stages of infection
Correct Answer: 1. incubation 2. prodromal 3. acute 4. convalescent 5. resolution
Question: *incubation stage
Correct Answer: period where microorganisms begins replication without identifiable symptoms short as
24 hours or 2-3 months
Question: *prodromal stage
Correct Answer: initial symptoms appear, often vague and general
Question: *acute stage
Correct Answer: full infectious disease, signs and symptoms are present, immune system is fully engaged
Question: *convalescent stage
Correct Answer: body progressively eliminating the pathogen lasts days, weeks or months
Question: *resolution stage
Correct Answer: pathogen is eliminated from the body
Question: intact immunity
Correct Answer: critical dependency (showed us the heroin arm in class)
Question: *humoral immunity
Correct Answer: mediated by soluble antibody proteins
Question: *cellular immunity