Disease Detectives Vocabulary

an organism, typically a biting insect or tick, that transmits a disease or parasite from one animal or plant to another

• vector

• host

• contagious

• antiibiotic

a living cell in which a virus multiplies

• terminal

• disease

• host

• virus

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(of a disease) spread from one person or organism to another by direct or indirect contact

• fomites

• pandemic

• contagious

• illness

(of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world

• environment

• pandemic

• viruses

• bacteria

the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates

• reservoir

• terminal

• environment

• incubation

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the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings

• ecology

• fomites

• terminal

• cells

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a population, tissue, etc, that is chroically infested with the causative agent of a disease and can act as a source of further infection

• reservoir

• ailment

• terminal

• disease

the branch of medicine which deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health

• viruses

• ecology

• epidemiology

• epidemic

objects or materials which are likely to carry infection, such as clothes, utensils, and furniture

• fomites

• host

• antibiotic

• hypothesis

an infective agent that typically consists of a nucleic acid molecule in a protein coat, is too small to be seen by light microscopy, and is able to multiply only within the living cells of a host

• incubation

• contamination

• cells

• viruses