The National Teachers College

Quiapo, Manila

PRADO, Kenneth Dizon TF 9:30-11:30am

Microbiology Ms. Patoc

The Infectious Disease Process

(1) agent (2) reservoir (3) portals of entry and exit (4) mode of transmission (5) immunity.

Types of agents  Conjunctiva (lining of the eyes and

eyelids)
 range from the submicroscopic to the  Urogenital tract
large parasites  Gastrointestinal tract (upper and
lower)
Reservoir: Is the normal habitat in which the  Placenta (mother to child transmission)
agent lives and multiplies. It is where the agent
 Skin (broken and unbroken skin)
propagates itself in nature. 4 types are:
Modes of transmission include:
 Symptomatic cases
 Carriers
 Contact (requiring proximity to an
o Inapparent throughout history
o Incubatory infected host or discharge from an
o Convalescent infected host)
 Animals  Vehicle (an inanimate intermediate
o Direct zoonoses carrier)
o Cyclozoonoses  Vector (an animate intermediate
o Metazoonones carrier, often an insect)
o Saprozoonoses
o Mechanical
 Inanimate objects
o Developmental
o Water
o Food o Propagative
o Soil o Cyclopropagative
o Air
o Fomites Dynamics of Transmission

Portals of infection include the  Common vehicle

 Serial
 Respiratory tract (upper and lower)