Final Exam Marathon

Disease that primarily infects animals but is occasionally transmitted to humans

• Zoonosis

• Herd Immunity

• Morbidity

• Epidemiology

Quantitatively measures disease burden in terms of lost years due to the disease, disability due to disease, and premature death

• Pandemic

• Morbidity

• DALY (Disability-Adjusted Life Year)

• Endemic

Defined as the resistance of a group to infection due to immunity of a high proportion of the group

• Morbidity

• Pandemic

• Zoonosis

• Herd Immunity

Sites in which infectious agents remain viable and from which individuals can become infected

• Reservoirs

• DALY (Disability-Adjusted Life Year)

• Pandemic

• Herd Immunity

Pathogen-infected individuals showing no signs of clinical disease

• Reservoirs

• Zoonosis

• Herd Immunity

• Carriers

Segments of DNA that can move from one site to another site on the same or a different DNA molecule

• Transposable Elements

• Operons

• tRNA

• Semiconservatism

Refers to the incidence of disease, including fatal and nonfatal diseases

• Morbidity

• Zoonosis

• DALY (Disability-Adjusted Life Year)

• Epidemiology

Functional collection of different microbes in a particular environmental system

• Aging

• Pathogenicity

• Colonization

• Microbiome

Contain high concentrations of lymphocytes and phagocytes

• Capillary Beds

• Lymph nodes

• Microbiota

• Dispedesis

Growth of microorganisms after they’ve gained access to host tissues that begins at birth

•  Probiotics

• Colonization

• Inflammatory bowel disease

• Adherence