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ECE 2 Target Stn 07
ECE2-07 Reduce Infectious Process
Term | Definition |
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Immunity | the body's defense against disease |
Antibodies | proteins in the blood that fight disease |
Antigens | substances made in a laboratory and transferred to people in the form of a shot (injection) |
Etiologic Agent | a biologic substance that causes illness or disease |
Reservoir | the usual habitat where an infectious agent lives and grows. Sometimes human, sometime animal, sometime the environment |
Portal of Exit | How the disease escapes the reservoir to be transmitted to another |
Mode of Transmission | How the agent travels, generally direct or indirect |
Portal of Entry | How the agent infects the new host, sometime though breathing particles, sometimes by contact with the skin, etc. |
Host | The person who is newly infected with the illness or diseease |
Symptoms | Various reaction of the body to illness or infection. Common symptoms are fever, sore throat, coughing, chills, stiffness, irritability, etc. |
Diagnosis | When a doctor or tests determines the cause of the illness or infection |
Terminally Ill | When it is determined that the illness or infection will cause death |
Exclusion Policy | Not allowing children who are symptomatic to attend school and expose others to illness or infection |
Immune System | The bodies natural ability to fight illness and disease |
Common Communicable illnesses | Hepatitis. Viral hepatitis causes 78% of liver cancers and the hepatitis B virus alone infects an estimated one in three people worldwide. ...HIV/AIDS. ...Influenza. ...Malaria. ...Polio. ... Tuberculosis. |