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Transmission of disease from mother to fetus.
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Vertical
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An infection indigenous to animals that ca, on occasion, be transmitted to humans.
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Zoonosis
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A measurable objective indication of disease.
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Sign
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All infectious diseases are...
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Contagious
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Indicating Gram negative organism
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Endotoxin
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An inanimate object that harbors and transmits a pathogen.
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Fomite
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Animals that participate in the life cycles of pathogens and transmit pathogens from host to host.
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Biological vectors
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Toxins that target the intestines.
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Enterotoxins
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Subjective indication of disease, most often a feeling.
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Symptom
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The total number of deaths in a population due to a disease.
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Mortality Rate
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Secreted by pathogenic organisms.
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Exotoxins
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When the human body typically begins to be colonized by it's normal biota.
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During and immediatly after birth
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When members of the normal microbiota of the human body become pathogenic and produce disease they are refered to as....
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Opportunistic pathogens
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Attributes of an organism that promote pathogenicity.
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Virulence factors
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Competition for nutrients, physically blocking organs, direct digestion of host tissue and host immune response are all caused by what?
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Parasites
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