Infection
Implantation and success replication of an organism in the tissue of the
host resulting to signs and symptoms as well as immunologic response.
Carrier
An individual who harbors the organism and is cap
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Infection
Implantation and success replication of an organism in the tissue of the
host resulting to signs and symptoms as well as immunologic response.
Carrier
An individual who harbors the organism and is capable of transmitting it to a
susceptible host without showing manifestations of the disease.
Communicable Disease
It is an illness caused by an infectious agent or its toxic products that are
transmitted directly or indirectly to a well person through an agency, and a
vector or an inanimate object.
Contact
It is any person or animal who is in close association with an infected
person, animal or freshly soiled materials.
Contagious Disease
It is a term given to a disease that is easily transmitted from one person to
another through direct or indirect means.
Disinfection
It is the destruction of pathogenic microorganism on inanimate objects by
directly applying physical or chemical means.
Concurrent
it is a method of disinfection done immediately after the infected
individual discharges infectious material/secretions.
Method of disinfection when the patient is still the source of infection.
Terminal
It is applied when the patient is no longer the source of infection
This is done after patient is discharged from the hospital to prepare the room for the
next patient.
Habitat
It is a place where an organism lives or where an organism is usually found.
Host
It is a person, animal or plant on which a parasite depends for its survival.
Infectious Disease
It is transmitted not only by ordinary contact but requires direct inoculation of
the organism through a break on the skin or mucous membrane.
Isolation
it is the separation from other persons of an individual suffering from a
communicable disease during the period of communicability.
Quarantine
It is the limitation of freedom of movement of persons or animals which have
been exposed to communicable disease/s for a period of time equivalent to
the longest incubation period of that disease.
Reservoir
It is composed of one of more species of animal or plant in which an infectious
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