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Disease
Infection
Signs of disease are...
Symptoms of disease are...
Syndrome
Infectious disease
Communicable infectious diseases
Contagious diseases
Iatrogenic diseases
Nosocomial diseases
Zoonotic disease (or zoonosis)
Noncommunicable infectious disease
Noninfectious diseases
Inherited diseases
Congenital diseases
Degenerative diseases
Nutritional deficiency diseases
Endocrine diseases
Neoplastic diseases
Idiopathic diseases
incubation period
Prodromal period
Period of illness
Period of decline
Period of convalescence
Acute disease
Chronic disease
Latent diseases
Pathogenicity
Virulence
median infectious dose (ID50)
Median lethal dose (LD50)
A primary pathogen can...
An opportunistic pathogen can...
exposure/contact
adhesion
adhesins
invasion
local infection
focal infection
systemic infection
primary infection
secondary infection
bacteremia
pyemia
viremia
toxemia
septicemia
shock
toxins
toxigenicity
The two types of toxin
Endotoxin
Exotoxin
Intracellular targeting toxins
Membrane-disrupting toxins
Superantigens
antigenic variation
antigenic drift
antigenic shift
epidemiology
etiology
morbidity
prevalence
incidence
sporadic diseases
endemic diseases
epidemic diseases
pandemic disease
etiologic/causative agent
notifiable/reportable diseases
Who is John Snow?
Common source spread
Point source spread
Continuous common source spread
Intermittent common source spread
Propagated spread
Who is Florence Nightingale?
Who is Joseph Lister?
Observational study
Descriptive epidemiology
Analytical epidemiology
Retrospective studies
Prospective studies
Cohort method
Case-control studies
Cross-sectional study
Experimental epidemiology
Passive carrier
Active carrier
Asymptomatic carriers
Definitive host
Intermediate hosts
Vehicle transmission
Mechanical transmission
Biological transmission
