Chain of Infection
What is a fomite?
Inanimate object that can spread infection
What are symptoms?
Things that are felt by the patient
Nausea, Headache
Benign
non-cancerous
Helps the body function
Normal flora
Malaria, African sleeping sickness and toxoplasmosis are all caused by
Protozoa
What is the purpose of infection control?
To disrupt the chain of infection
Vomiting, limping, shivering are all
signs
Etiology
The cause
Opportunistic parasites
Fungi
Malaria is caused by
Mosquitos
How do pathogens get into the body?
Portal of entry
Jaundice is a sign of what viral infection?
Hepatitis
Vaccines the protect against specific pathogens
Immunizations
A tiny pathogen that multiplies only within the cells of a living host
Virus
Mumps, measles, chicken pox, herpes and polio are all what?
Viruses
What are the links in the chain of infection?
Causative agent, reservoir, portal of exit, mode of transmission, portal of entry, susceptible host
What are the signs and symptoms of TB?
Fever, Night sweats, hemoptysis (coughing up blood)
Infection obtained in a health care facility
Nosocomial infection
scabies, lice, bed bugs
multicellular parasites
Tuberculosis, chlamydia and meningitis are some?
common bacterial infections
mosquitos, ticks, rats, dogs and cats are all examples of what?
vector
From the time an infection is contracted to when signs and symptoms appear is called what?
Incubation period
What do the very young or old, HIV patients, people receiving chemotherapy or radiation all have in common?
Immunosuppression
One celled pathogen that causes infections in the skin, bloodstream, urinary tract and respiratory tract.
bacteria
The 3 classic signs of meningitis are
headache, stiff neck and fever