infection carrier

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• Infection control — is the discipline concerned with preventing nosocomial or healthcare associated infection, a practical (rather than academic) sub discipline of epidemiology. It is an essential, though often under recognized and under supported, part of the… …   Wikipedia

• carrier — late 14c., agent noun from CARRY (Cf. carry). Meaning person or animal that carries and disseminates infection without suffering obvious disease is from 1899; genetic sense is 1933. As a short form of aircraft carrier it dates from 1917. Carrier… …   Etymology dictionary

• carrier — Synonyms and related words: Aquarius, Ganymede, Hebe, Hermes, Iris, Mercury, Paul Revere, Pheidippides, advocate, aerial infection, airborne infection, aircraft, aircraft carrier, alpenstock, arm, athletic supporter, back, backbone, backing,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• carrier — 1. A person or animal that harbors a specific infectious agent in the absence of discernible clinical disease and serves as a potential source of infection. 2. Any chemical capable of accepting an atom …   Medical dictionary

• Infection — The growth of a parasitic organism within the body. (A parasitic organism is one that lives on or in another organism and draws its nourishment therefrom.) A person with an infection has another organism (a germ ) growing within him, drawing its… …   Medical dictionary

• infection — Synonyms and related words: abomination, adulteration, aerial infection, afflatus, airborne infection, animating spirit, animation, animus, atrocity, bad, bane, befouling, befoulment, besmirchment, blight, carrier, communicability, contagion,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• carrier — n. 1) a person who harbours the microorganisms causing a particular disease without experiencing signs or symptoms of infection and who can transmit the disease to others. 2) (in genetics) a person who bears a gene for an abnormal trait without… …   The new mediacal dictionary

• carrier state — A type of attenuated infection characterized by the presence of a pathogenic microorganism within or upon host tissues …   Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

• carrier — An infected individual who is a potential source of infection for others and plays an important role in the epidemiology of a disease …   Dictionary of microbiology

• infection — n. invasion of the body by harmful organisms (pathogens), such as bacteria, fungi, protozoa, rickettsiae, or viruses. The infective agent may be transmitted by a patient or carrier in airborne droplets expelled during coughing and sneezing or by… …   The new mediacal dictionary

• Asymptomatic carrier — An asymptomatic carrier (healthy carrier or just carrier) is a person or other organism that has contracted an infectious disease, but who displays no symptoms. Although unaffected by the disease themselves, carriers can transmit it to others. In …   Wikipedia