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MBI 361A. Review. Sept. 7, 2021. Chapters 1,2 and 3.

Horizontales
A term used to indicate a 'worldwide epidemic.'
True or false: Presymptomatic diagnosis of individuals with coronary artery atherosclerosis is an example of 'primary prevention.'
Fill in the blank: The basic cycle of the disease West Nile virus (WNV) is bird-mosquito-________.
In Britain, a medical laboratory scientist developed a laboratory test to detect the presence of prions that cause the disease "scrapie" in sheep and "kuru" in humans in hosts who have not yet clinically apparent disease, but who are destined to progress to clinical disease. When the test is used to detect these hosts, it is detecting ____________________ disease.
True or false: A 'proportion' is not a 'rate.'
Fill in the blank: In the U.S., the states in which established ___________ cycles of Borrelia burgdorferi have been reported account in general for 95% of Lyme Disease cases.
This is not on the exam: The disease ascariasis (caused by the roundworm Ascaris) is an example of STDs ( the acronym for __________-transmitted diseases) that affect approximately 2 billion individuals or 29% of the world's population.
The term 'vaccination' is derived from the Latin word for ________'
Prevalence = _____________ X Duration of Disease
Verticales
Ignaz _________________ surmised that mortality due to childbed fever could be drastically reduced by the use of handwashing.
The classical "epidemiologic transition' that occurs in a country as it changes over time from being a less economically developed country to a modernized or economically developed country is a transition in its disease pattern from _________ and infectious to chronic and noninfectious.
If the population of Logantown on April 5, 2019 was 1,000 and the number of new active cases of TB occurring between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2019 was 100. The number of active TB cases according to the city register on Dec. 31, 2019 was 200. The __________ was 20%.
True or false: Generally, passive surveillance requires more health care providers (than active surveillance) leading to more varied and subjective data.
True or false: In the U.S. the leading etiologic agent of food-borne-related illness is the bacterium Escherichia coli.
Term that means 'the habitual presence of a disease within a given geographic area.'
Members of the microbial genus Giardia are _____________.
Fill in the blank with the word 'incidence' or 'prevalence': Asthma is a disease of children for which _________ is difficult to measure because the exact time of the beginning of the disease (its inception) is often hard to determine, given the difficulties in defining the disease and ascertaining the initial symptoms.
John _________ is considered to be the 'Father of Epidemiology.'
What would the effect on 'age-specific incidence rates' of uterine cancer be if women with hysterectomies were included in the denominator of the calculations, assuming that there were some women in each age group who had had hysterectomies? The rate would _____________.