Exam 9: Principles of Infectious Disease and Epidemiology

Hospital microbiologists routinely test isolated pathogens for their susceptibility to commonly prescribed drugs in order to share these susceptibility rates with the healthcare team to help them make informed decisions about antibiotic therapies.

What is the definition of a true pathogen?

When two things happen at the same time, that correlation indicates one factor is causing the other.

What is the definition of eradication of an infectious disease?

If a population contains 800 individuals and documents 400 cases of measles within the population, what is the prevalence rate?

Which of the following does not help to limit the spread of healthcare- acquired infections?

The epidemiological triangle is equally useful for describing noninfectious diseases as it is infectious diseases.

Which of the following is not a goal of the public health system?

Which of the following pathogen agents is multicellular?

Name the five limitations of Koch's postulates.

What are the three factors of the epidemiological triangle?

Zoonotic diseases are spread from animals to humans.

What is a pandemic?

It is called a vector when the vector organism has a role in the pathogen's life cycle.

The source of an infectious agent is the animate or inanimate habitat where the pathogen is naturally found.

Which of the following is an example of analytical epidemiology?

When is quarantine an effective tool to limit disease?

Which of the following is not a way that ethical issues emerge in epidemiology?

When a healthcare provider diagnoses a reportable disease, who do they document the case with?

Which of the following is not a reason why healthcare epidemiology is essential to quality care?