Communicable
Diseases Questions
with Answers
User [Date] [Course title]
, Communicable Diseases - Correct Answer: able to spread and be picked up in community
B lymphocytes - Correct Answer: identify invaders
T lymphocytes - Correct Answer: destroy invaders
Innate/ Natural Immunity - Correct Answer: general protection (skin, mucous membranes,etc.)
Active Immunity - Correct Answer: Someone had disease already or had immunization
Immunization - Correct Answer: taking dead strain of virus to create memory cells but patient WILL NOT
get illness
Passive Immunity - Correct Answer: Give antibodies to unprotected individual; Only SHORT term
protection
Epidemiology - Correct Answer: studies the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease
conditions in defined populations
Epidemiological triad - Correct Answer: Must have all three
Incubation Period - Correct Answer: the time between the exposure to an infectious agent and when the
first symptoms appear.
Prodromal - Correct Answer: the time from the initial onset of symptoms to the appearance of rash or
fever.
period of communicability - Correct Answer: the length of time the person is contagious