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Communicable Disease Nursing
29 pages
Published by
AJ Tapia
I.
Review of Related Terms
A.
Communicable Disease – caused by an infectious agent which is acquired from an infected individual and
transmitted to a susceptible host either by direct and indirect contact or through direct...
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I.
Review of Related Terms
A.
Communicable Disease – caused by an infectious agent which is acquired from an infected individual and
transmitted to a susceptible host either by direct and indirect contact or through direct inoculation into a
broken skin or mucous membrane.
The two persons important for a communicable disease to occur are the infected individual and the
susceptible host.
Types of Communicable Disease
1.
Infectious – disease is NOT easily transmitted from person to person.
It requires inoculation, e.
g.
tetanus, malaria, dengue, filariasis, rabies
Inoculation – entrance of microorganism through mechanical means, e.
g.
biting, puncturing,
laceration, open wound
2.
Contagious – easily transmitted from one person to another through droplet, direct, or indirect
contact, e.
g.
tuberculosis, diphtheria, measles, chickenpox, meningococcemia
B.
Epidemiology – the science of the patterns of disease, its occurrence, distribution, or spread and the
prevention and contr
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