NR 110 (Latest 2023 / 2024 ) Chapter 23
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What is droplet transmission?:
Pathogen travels in water droplets expelled as an infected person exhales, sneezes, or talks
What is airborne transmission?:
Travels in heating/air conditioning, shaking contaminated material.
Ex: Measles, TB, and fungal infections
What is direct contact?:
Occurs between two people and usually involves touching, kissing or sexual intercourse
What is indirect contact?:
Involves contact with a fomite, a contaminated object that tranfers a pathogen
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What is a vector?:
An organism that carries a pathogen to a susceptible host like a mosquito
Ex: malaria, yellow fever, west Nile virus
What are the stages of infection?:
Incubation, prodromal, illness, and decline
What is incubation?:
time of infection until manifestation of symptoms different diseases can have different incubation
What is prodromal?:
Appearance of a vague symptom; not all disease have this
Ex: mild throat irriation
What is illness?:
Signs and symptoms present
What is decline?:
number of pathogens decline; start to feel better
What is convalescene:
tissue repair; return to health
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