Title: Describe the six components of the infectious processes.
Course: Introduction to Mortuary Science (14299) > Section: Protecting Personal and Public Health

Description should include

- causative agent
- mode of transmission
- portal of exit
- susceptible host
- portal of entry into host
- reservoir.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What are the methods of transmission?
- How are common infectious diseases controlled?
- How would that apply to the environment of the embalmer? To the funeral director? To the public?
- What is beneficial between microorganisms and the actual pathogens?
- How do pathogens trigger an immune response?
- What are the requirements for successful parasitism?
- What are defense mechanisms involving innate, natural, and active immunologic responses?
- What are basic bacterial and fungal morphology, and physiology?