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Questions
1. What is the difference between disease and infection?
2. What is your microbiome and why are they so important?
3. What is a vector?
4. What are Koch's Postulates?
5. What are the exceptions to Koch's postulates?
6. What is symbiosis and what are the different types of it?
7. How do we classify infectious diseases? provide an example of each category.
8. What is the prevalence of a disease? How is prevalence different from incidence?
9. Briefly explain the differences between sporadic, endemic, epidemic, and pandemic.
10. Define occurrence of a disease.
11. Define Severity of Disease.
12. What is herd immunity and how is it achieved?
13. What is a host and what is the difference between a primary infection and secondary infection?
14. What is a subclinical infection or inapparent infection?
15. What are factors that can lead to or determine patterns of disease?
16. How to diseases develop? Explain the different periods associated with them.
17. How are infections spead?
18. What are reservoirs of infections?
19. What are zoonoses and why are they important to understand?
20. How is transmission defined?
21. Explain and define 3 different ways transmission can occur.
22. What are HAIs? Why do you need to be aware of them?
23. What is an example of a compromised host? Explain why your example meets the criteria of a compromised host.
24. How do we control HAIs?
25. What are EIDs? How can EIDs arise and how do we track them?
26. Epidemiology is defined as what?
27. When did modern Epidemiology begin?