Chain of Infection
Reservoir
What is a place where pathogens can grow and multiply?
Standard Precautions
What is the basic procedures taken to prevent the spread of infection?
Fomite
What are objects or materials which carry pathogens?
Communicable Disease
What is any disease that can be transmitted from one individual to another by direct or indirect contract or by vectors?
Portal of Exit
What is the way in which pathogens escape a host?
Contact Precautions
What is the extra precautions taken to protect against a specific pathogen that is transmitted by direct or indirect contact?
Medical Asepsis
What is the process of killing most microorganisms to make something clean?
Opportunistic Infection
What are infections that occur when the body’s defenses are weak?
Causative Agent
What is a pathogen?
Droplet Precautions
What is the extra precautions taken to protect against a specific pathogen that is transmitted by body fluids?
Sterile Field
What is an area created for sterile equipment used during sterile procedures?
Vaccine
What is a substance used to stimulate antibody production and provide immunity against one or more diseases?
Mode of Transmission
What is the route a pathogen takes to move from one host to another?
Negative Pressure & N95 Respirator Mask
What is the PPE required for airborne precautions?
Herd Immunity
What is indirect protection from infectious disease that occurs when most of the population becomes immune to the disease?
Acquired Immunity
What is immunity that is obtained after disease or vaccination; develops during a person’s lifetime?
Portal of Entry
What is the way a pathogen enters a new host?
Neutropenic Precautions
What is the extra precautions taken to protect an immunocompromised patient from getting ill?
Carrier
What is someone who can spread a pathogen that causes disease in others but do not become ill themselves?
Healthcare Acquired Infection
What is an infection acquired by an individual in a healthcare facility?