Indicate whether each of the following conditions is typical of subacute, chronic, or acute infections.
a. The patient experiences a rapid onset of malaise; symptoms last 5 days.
b. The patient experiences cough and breathing difficulty for months.
c. The patient has no apparent symptoms and is a known carrier.

Question

Indicate whether each of the following conditions is typical of subacute, chronic, or acute infections.

a. The patient experiences a rapid onset of malaise; symptoms last 5 days.

b. The patient experiences cough and breathing difficulty for months.

c. The patient has no apparent symptoms and is a known carrier.

Accepted Answer

Hello, everyone and welcome. Let's take a look at the next question. It says the following are chronic infections except A A I DS B tuberculosis C Asias or D Ebola. Well, to answer this, we need to recall what a chronic infection is and this with the chronic means lasting over a long period of time. So the continued presence of an infectious virus following a primary infection. So you don't just get infected and get sick, then either recover or die in the worst case scenario and then be over the illness. In this case, you get infected, you may have a prolonged period of incubation with no symptoms. The symptoms develop and then may carry on for a long time or cause recurrent disease where you get sick and get better, get sick and get better. So when we look at our four answer choices here, which one we have that word accept which one is not a cause of this long term disease. And that would be choice. D Ebola, Ebola is an acute very serious illness that is often fatal if it's untreated. But there is no known prolonged course of infection. You get infected with Ebola, you get very, very ill and either someone dies or they recover when we look at our other answer. Choices. Choice A A I DS quite well known for being a long term progressive disease. Person is infected by the HIV virus and the disease can essentially be dormant for years before developing into full blown A I DS and then can be a chronic illness. It's a progressive disease that, um, will get worse if untreated and eventually be fatal without treatment, but can last for a long time, you don't get it and recover. So choice A A I DS definitely a, an example of a chronic infection. Choice B tuberculosis is a bacterial infection but is also a chronic disease. It's something that can be dormant for a long time. Sometimes people don't even realize they've been infected with it and then can be progressive over a period, long period of time and it can cause recurrent disease. You can improve and get, then get worse later. So choice B another chronic disease in choice ce assis, this is another chronic disease actually caused by roundworm infection, the initial infection that might not cause symptoms right away, but then it persists the round words remain in the body unless there's some sort of treatment that eliminates them. And so it keeps on re going through its life cycle over and over and over again and causing symptoms over a long period of time. You don't again, you don't recover and eliminate it. So a psoriasis choice c also a chronic infection. So our only choice here that is not a chronic infection is choice. The Ebola. See you in the next video.

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Key Concepts

Acute Infections

Chronic Infections

Subacute Infections