Learning Outcomes
When you have studied this session, you should be able to:
- Define and use correctly all of the key terms printed in bold.
- Identify the main types of infectious agents.
- Describe the main reservoirs of infectious agents.
- Describe the chain of transmission of communicable diseases and explain how infectious agents are transmitted by direct and indirect modes.
- Describe the characteristics of susceptible hosts and the main risk factors for development of communicable diseases.
- Describe the stages in the natural history of communicable diseases.
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