Epidemiology Knowledge Check

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Across
  1. 6. one benefits at the other’s expense
  2. 7. arthropod that transmits a disease
  3. 8. microbes that colonize permanently
  4. 9. colonization by pathogens
  5. 14. one benefits
  6. 15. symptoms develop slowly
  7. 16. pathogen reproduces in vector
  8. 19. number of people who die from a disease
  9. 20. microbes that come and go
  10. 23. symptoms develop rapidly
  11. 25. causes disease when immunocompromised
  12. 26. change that a doctor can measure
  13. 28. contaminated object
  14. 31. both benefit
  15. 33. systemic infection that began as a local infection
  16. 34. vector carries disease on feet
  17. 35. signs/symptoms that accompany disease
  18. 36. acquired by many hosts in a given area at one time
  19. 37. protects most of the population
  20. 38. transmission of a disease by food
Down
  1. 1. continual source of an infection
  2. 2. infection from an animal
  3. 3. relationship between organisms living together
  4. 4. spreadable from one host to another
  5. 5. total number of cases at a given time
  6. 10. acquired during the course of healthcare
  7. 11. cause of a disease
  8. 12. change that a patient feels
  9. 13. how a disease develops
  10. 17. easily spread from one host to another
  11. 18. only appears occasionally in a population
  12. 21. study of how diseases spread
  13. 22. epidemic on more than one continent
  14. 24. transmission of a disease by droplets
  15. 27. period without symptoms while the causative agent is inactive
  16. 29. number of people sick with a disease
  17. 30. study of disease
  18. 32. new cases of a disease during a given time
  19. 36. constantly present in a population