The minimum amount of microbes in the inoculating dose is the _______.

The objective, measurable evidence of disease evaluated by an observer is termed a(n) _______.

Animals that participate in the life cycles of pathogens and transmit pathogens from host to host are _______.

During a recent survey, 0.014% of the population showed evidence of a particular respiratory infection. Please select the term that is illustrated by this statistic.

A _______ is an infection indigenous to animals that can, on occasion, be transmitted to humans.

The total number of deaths in a population due to a disease is the _______ rate.

The term ______ is given to molecules that can be seen and identified by the immune system.

The time from when pathogen first enters the body and begins to multiply, until symptoms first appear is the _______.

Epidemiology is the study of disease in the ________.

If an infectious disease emerged that was highly contagious and virulent, resulting in certain death with no known cure, epidemiological data would show _______.