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lecture 5 exam 2
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10/10/2012

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Term
Prepatent 
Definition

time of exposure to disease before symptoms occur

-mperiod from time of first exposure until you get ill with symptoms

- minimum 9 days     maximum 3 weeks

Example: somebody who visits Kenya doesnt get symptoms until they return to US

Term
Patent 
Definition

period when disease symptoms exhibited

Ex) malaria period after prepatent

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Anopheles 
Definition

mosquito that can transmit malaria to humans

Example: Anopheles inject malaria sporozoite from salivary glands into host

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Hypnozoite 
Definition

state of dormancy

Example. P.ovale sporozoite enter liver and become hynozoite dormant stage, then 2-3 years later cause relapse of malaria

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Relapse 
Definition

reoccurrence of previous disease

- sporozoite enters liver, hypnozoite dormant stage 2-3 years, then relapse disease

Example: woman from Italy had disease as young woman, immigrated to USA then had disease reoccur when she was 70 in Cleveland

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Cinchona 
Definition

tree containing quinine in bark, quinine active against malaria

Example: Europeans used quinine from swamp that had cinchona trees to treat people of sickness way back in time.

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