Compare and contrast direct and indirect transmission in infectious disease.

What will be an ideal response?


Infectious disease can be transmitted through direct contact from person to person or indirectly through a material that becomes contaminated with a pathogen by one person and is then touched or ingested by another. Examples of infectious disease that is directly transmitted include sexually transmitted diseases. The common cold can be transmitted directly or indirectly.

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a. infectious mononucleosis b. Burkitt's lymphoma c. nasopharyngeal carcinoma d. A and B e. all of the above

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The suffix that means eating, swallowing is ____________________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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The suffix -penia, as seen in thrombocytopenia, means "condition of ________."

A) infection B) bleeding C) deficiency D) the blood

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A male college student practices caloric restriction (negative caloric balance of 500 calories per day) for 21 days. In theory, this individual should lose ________ pound(s) of fat at the completion of the 21 days.

A. 4 B. 1 C. 3 D. 2

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