HSS 4303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Microorganism, Enzootic, Compartmental Models In Epidemiology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 4303
• Professor: Eric Lavigne

Document Summary

Susceptible: uninfected, but able to become infected if exposed. Infectious: infected and able to transmit the infection to other susceptible individuals. Immune: possessing cell-mediated or humoral antibody protection against an infection. Diseased/clinical infection: implies the presence of clinical signs of pathology; no synonymous with infected. Carrier: implies a protracted infected state with shedding of the infectious agent; may be diseased, recovering, or healthy. Infectious (communicable) period: length of time a person can transmit disease; sheds the infectious agent. Incubation period: time from exposure to development of disease; time interval btwn invasion by an infectious agent and the appearance of the first sign or symptom of the disease in question: clinical disease: with the disease. Serial interval: gap in time btwn onset of the primary and secondary cases; interval btwn receipt of infection and max infectivity of the host; generation time. Infectious disease at population level terms not in final.