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Everything has something else living on them
our bodies 10:1
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normal flora
protective
take up space
take up food
produce growth inhibitor
opportunists- normal flora
-take advantage of change
location-intestine>peritoneal cavity
neighbors- broad spectrum antibiotics
immune status- immunocompromised |
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commensalistic- one benfits other neutral
mutualistic- both benefit
parasitic- one benefits at others expense |
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Humans- sick people
- carriers- not appear ill |
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| Animals- zoonoses- transmitted from animal to man |
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Direct contact w/
animal- lick face
animal waste-toxoplasmosis
animal contaminated food/water- mice/grains
insect vectors-malaria- mosquitoes
as contaminated food- trichinosis-pork |
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soil and water
Routes of transmission |
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| contact, vehicles, vectors |
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direct- source to host
- person to person |
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>intermediate>host
- fomite- non-living intermediate
tissue, cups, towell, etc |
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| vector- uses a living carrier |
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| often-arthropods- jointed foot/exoskelton roughly think insects |
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| mechanical- just carried- no relationship with the vector |
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lives/reproduces in/on vector
- may/may not make vector ill |
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respiratory- nose/mouth- cough sneeze
gastrointestinal- feces, saliva
urogenital-sexuallytransmitted, urine
skin/wound drainage- blood |
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