GPH 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Antimicrobial Resistance, Infection, Vector Control
3 Jan 2020
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In circulation in comm, needs host or opp. Increasingly resistant microbes due to wrong use: wrong antimicrobial, wrong dose, non-compliance with plan, counterfeit drugs. Infectious: due to pathogenic microorg, contagious, transmissible by direct or indirect contact, communicable. Spread from one org to another: elimination, reducing incidence to zero, eradication, reducing the prevalence and incidence to zero, modes of transportation, human to human, different radius of infection, may or may not require fomites. Fleas = plague: mosquitos = malaria, zoonotic. 60 to 80 % of re-emerging diseases are this bc they live in animals and infect again: measles and polio are popular re-ermeging diseases now, containing disease, prevention, vaccination, ex: measles, vector control, ex: control rats, capture mosquitos. Isolating someone who is already sick until they can get treatment/are treated: treatment, post exposure, quarantine. Someone could potentially be exposed to a disease and they are taken away from society just in case they do get sick.
