VPAT 3100H Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Fomite, Iatrogenesis, Feline Panleukopenia
9 Apr 2018
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Sources of infections: normal flora, staff skin infection; you have it all the time, but sometimes it can get in deep and cause serious infections, carriers. Incubating is form the perspective of the host/animal: latency period- form infection to infectious; organism is ready to jump out and start spreading to another host. Shorter than the incubation period: animals with disease, convalescent animals, asymptomatic (lack symptoms)- no incubation period, no convalescent, example- typhoid, environment. Transmission: direct transmission i. e someone coughs at you. Indirect transmission which involves an intermediate, ex: fomite (objects that can transmit infectious agents from one animal to another: vector- are biological things such as mosquitos. Iatrogenic- doctor cause: nosocomial- (of a disease) originating in a hospital. Or they can be dead-end host which is us or horses; once it gets in that host, it ends: panzootic, refers to across counties and countries, contagious- spread through casual contact or indirect contact.
