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Terminology used to describe the dynamics of disease transmission correctly answered to pass
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Terminology used to describe thedynamics of disease transmission
correctly answered to pass
endemic - correct answer ✔✔the usual (habitual) occurrence of a disease within a given area
sporadic - correct answer ✔✔separate or scattered disease incidents occurring at a low frequency
epidemic or outbreak - correct answer ✔✔more disease than expected for a given time and place
pandemic - correct answer ✔✔epidemic affecting several continents
reservoir - correct answer ✔✔any animal, human arthropod, plant, soil, or inanimate matter in which an
infectious agent normally lives and multiplies or on which it depends primarily for survival and
reproduces in such a way that it can be transmitted to a susceptible host
nidus - correct answer ✔✔a localized reservoir that persists over a very long time period
vehicle - correct answer ✔✔an object, substance, or non-receptive living being serving as an
intermediary in transmitting a pathogen from the organism hosting it to a receptive host
vector - correct answer ✔✔a living creature which, because of its ecological relationship to others,
acquires a pathogen from one living host and transmits it to another
fomite - correct answer ✔✔an object or material that is not in itself harmful, but on which pathogens
may be conveyed
carrier - correct answer ✔✔individual harbors the organisms, can infect others, but not clinically ill
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