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Mad cow disease is the result of infection of cattle with what agent?
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∙ 13y ago
A prion.
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Is a congenital disorder a noninfectious disease?
Congenital disorder is noninfectious disease. Although it may be a result of infection by some infective agent like rubella virus, during first trimester of pregnancy.
What causes staphylococcus intermedius?
Staphylococcus intermedius isn't a disease or infection it's the actual name of the microbe. Genus Staphylococcus and species intermedius. Therefore it is a causative agent not the result of anything.
What is the difference between a disease and a pathogen?
Pathogen is the agent or the culprit that causes a disease while the disease is the end result of what a pathogen did. Example: HIV virus is the pathogen while AIDS is the disease state that can result from high HIV viral load.
6 essential factors in infection process of disease?
For an infection to develop, six essential factors must be present. These are an agent, a source, a method of escape, a manner of transmission, a new host and a reservoir for the infection.
Which stage of infection is the period of time between the invasion of the infectious agent into the body and the onset of symptoms of the particular disease?
incubation
Is spinal stenosis a disease or a condition?
Spinal stenosis is a condition. It is not caused by an outside agent creating an infection, but rather a problem that your body has independently developed.
Does a positive result for CMV IgG indicate a current or past infection?
Generally a test for IgG antibodies can determines exposure to the disease agent (or vaccination). The immune system responds to regions. There is a rough correlation between the amount of antibody to the concentration of antigen (what triggers the immune response) and level of antibodies, but it isn't absolute. CMV IgG indicates past infection, and does not say anything about current infection.
How do immunizations work?
When your body becomes infected by a pathogenic agent, such as a virus, you produce an immune response which basically destroys the agent as well as any cells that have been invaded and your body is then rid of the infection. This immune response occurs because the body recognises molecules on the surface of the agent as being foreign and then produces cells that are specifically to attack this kind of agent. Some of these cells are kept in the body so that if the same infection strikes again, the body can produce an immune response that is bigger and begins much more quickly so that the individual doesn't suffer the disease. Immunizations effectively mimic the initial infection, causing the individual to produce memory cells so that they are prepared should the actual infection strike. However instead of being given the live infectious agent, which would cause the individual to have the disease, immunizations administer a form of the agent which is in some way deactivated. This means that an immune response will be produced specific to that infection and the individual will be protected from then on but they will not suffer from the disease.
What is the medical term meaning infectious agent?
pathogenAn agent of infection is a pathogen.
What chain of infection begins when a biological agent thrives within a?
The chain of infection begins when a biological agent thrives within a reservoir. The agent leaves the reservoir through the portal of exit.
What is difference between Infection and disease?
The correct answer is: An infection is growth of pathogenic microorganisms in the body, whether or not body function is impaired. Disease is any change from a state of health; impaired body function. The disease state is associated with the manifestation of symptoms such as fever, pain, aches etc., due to failure of immune system to control in the first round of the growth of infectious agent (s).
The chain of infection begins when a biological agent thrives within a what?
The chain of infection begins when a biological agent thrives within a reservoir. The agent leaves the reservoir through the portal of exit.
