Virulent pathogens are:

Determine if the diseases below are communicable or noncommunicable diseases.

A. Communicable Disease. B.  Noncommunicable Disease.
_____ 1) Lung Cancer.            _____ 3) HIV.                         _____  5) Diabetes.
_____ 2) Measles.                   _____ 4) Stroke.                    _____ 6) Covid-19.

Pathogens that are very virulent are more likely to cause disease than pathogens that are less virulent (Virulence:the ability of a pathogen to cause and infection/disease). The infectious dose for Virus X is must lower than the infectious dose of Virus Y. Which virus is more virulent?

Opportunistic pathogens are least likely to infect which of the following groups of people?

Characteristics of a pathogen that promote pathogenicity are called:

Which of the following pathogen characteristics may be considered virulence factor(s)?

An encapsulated bacterium can be a virulent pathogen because the capsule:

Which of the following is a true statement?

Differentiate the terms in each of the following pairs:

a. etiology and pathogenesis

b. infection and disease

c. communicable disease and noncommunicable disease