Name that organism
These microorganisms must use another organism’s living cells to reproduce.
What is a virus
The human body is an example of this link in the chain of infection
What is a host
Mosquitoes, fleas, ticks, and lice spread infection through this method
What is vector-borne transmission?
Also called clean technique, this practice reduces microorganisms and prevents their spread.
What is medical asepsis?
This stage occurs between entry of an infectious agent and the onset of symptoms.
What is the incubation stage?
Two people infected with the same virus may experience different ones of these.
What are symptoms?
This term describes a nonliving object contaminated with an infectious agent.
What is a fomite?
Contaminated food, water, or blood carries an infectious agent through this method.
What is vehicle transmission?
The chapter identifies this as the single most effective way to prevent infection.
What is handwashing?
These precautions remain necessary when transmission-based precautions are added.
What are standard precautions?
These resistant bacterial survival structures are especially dangerous because they are difficult to destroy.
What are spores
When infectious organisms leave through the nose in respiratory secretions, the nose serves as this link.
What is a portal of exit?
Measles spreads through this method involving infectious particles suspended in the air.
What is airborne transmission?
This process eliminates all microorganisms, including bacterial spores
What is sterilization?
A person inhales infectious particles suspended in the air. Another swallows contaminated water. These are the two transmission methods involved.
What are airborne transmission and vehicle transmission?
This characteristic earns certain bacteria the nickname “superbugs.”
What is antibiotic resistance?
This emotional factor can increase a person’s susceptibility to infection.
What is stress?
These two methods involve large respiratory droplets reaching someone during a nearby cough and physical transfer through touching an infected skin lesion.
What are droplet transmission and direct contact transmission?
An MA must perform this immediately after removing gloves, even when the gloves appeared intact
What is hand hygiene?
An MA caring for a patient in isolation must continue these routine precautions and perform this action after removing gloves.
What are standard precautions and hand hygiene?