Infection Control
Four types of microorganisms?
Bacteria
Viruses
Fungi
Parasites
Bacteria can exist where?
almost anywhere, including on skin, in water, in the air, in decayed matter, in secretions, on clothing, and under the free edge of nails.
Disease producing when they invade the body.
Pathogenic Bacteria
What shape is Cocci
Round Shaped
Short, Rod Shaped (Cheetos)
What is Bacteria
One-celled microorganism with both plant and animal characteristics
What is a pathogenic
A small minority of bacteria that causes disease when invading plant or animal tissue.
What are Parasites?
A type of pathogenic bacteria that require living matter to grow.
What is Spirilla
Spiral or corkscrew shaped bacteria, that causes lyme-disease, syphilis, and STDs
Harmless bacteria are what type of bacteria
nonpathogenic bacteria
What is Streptococci?
Pus-forming bacteria arranged in a curved lines that resemble a string of beads.
Bacteria that may cause strep throat or blood poisoning.
Streptococci
Bacteria that grows in pairs and can cause pneumonia
In humans pathogenic bacteria is know to produce...
diseases
Bacteria generally consist of an outer wall containing a liquid called...
protoplasm
Bacilli and Spirilla bacteria are both mobile and use slender, hair like extensions known as...
Flagella
What is Mitosis
The process in which bacteria grows, reproduces, and divides into two new cells
produce infections such as pustules, boils
Staphylococci
An infection, indicated by a lesion containing pus, confined to a particular part of the body is a...
Local Infection
A submicroscopic structure capable of infecting plants and animals including bacteria is a...
Virus
In 2000, a bacteria called Mycobacterium fortuitum furunculosis caused a client outbreak due to the failure of the practitioner to follow proper disinfection guidelines for...
whirlpool foot spas
What are the two distinct phases of the lifecycle of bacteria and what can one of those phases also be called.
an active stage and an inactive or spore forming stage
Bacteria that pose little or no risk to a client in the salon setting but are dangerous in the medical setting are...
anthrax and tetanus bacilli
A virus can live and reproduce only by...
penetrating other cells and becoming part of them
Disease-causing bacteria or viruses that are carried through the body in the blood or body fluids are...
bloodborne pathogens