Match Each Term with the Correct Definition

question 30

Multiple Choice

Match each term with the correct definition.
-Direct transmission

• A) A disease or condition regularly found among particular people or in a certain area.
• B) An ultramicroscopic, metabolically inert, infectious agent that replicates only within the cells of living hosts.
• C) When a disease spreads across a large geographic region, such as a continent or worldwide.
• D) Any mode or mechanism by which an infectious agent is spread through the environment or to another person.
• E) The state of being unable to get a particular disease; the condition that permits either natural or acquired resistance to disease.
• F) When new cases of a disease over a period of time substantially exceed what is expected, based on the recent past. Usually occurs in a particular place.
• G) A family of rare progressive neurodegenerative disorders that affect both humans and animals.
• H) Microscopic living organisms, usually one-celled, that are everywhere. They can cause infections or be helpful, such as in the making wine or in decomposition.
• I) Spread of disease produced by sneezing, coughing, or talking.
• J) Simple, aerobic organisms that can grow in low moisture and low pH environments; have their genetic material bound in a membrane
• K) An organism that lives in or on another organism and benefits by deriving nutrients from the other organism.
• L) Strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
• M) A person or other living organism that can be infected by an infectious agent under natural conditions.
• N) Spread of disease by touching or biting or kissing or sexual intercourse or by droplets entering the eye or nose or mouth.
• O) When the vaccination of a significant portion of a population provides a measure of protection for otherwise unprotected individuals
• P) When an agent carried from a reservoir to a susceptible host by suspended air particles or by animate or inanimate intermediaries

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