Vocabulary
What are anaerobes?
Organisms that prefer an oxygen-poor environment. Strict anaerobes cannot survive in the presence of oxygen.
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What process do these phases describe: incubation, prodromal, acute, convalescence.
The phases of infection
• Species • Genus • Family • Order • Class • Phylum • Kingdom • Domain
What does does this list define?
Linnaean system.
What has these shapes:
Rod,curved spiral, spherical, vibrio, square, tetra.
Bacteria
What is a fomite?
An intermediate inanimate source of infection in the process of disease transmission.
What's the process if a virus replicating copies of itself and busting through the cell?
lysogenesis
1. The cell is the fundamental unit of all living things. 2. All living things are composed of cells. 3. All cells are derived from other cells.
What is this list called?
Cell theory
How do bacteria move around?
flagellum
What is Bioburden?
A measure of the number of bacterial colonies on a surface.
What is the death of tissue?
Necrosis
What is the cell in a complex organism called?
eukaryotic cell
What bacteria is methicillin resistant?
MRSA
Staphylococcus Aureus and Epidermis
What is suppurative?
Having developed pus and fluid
• Hand washing • Learning and practicing Standard Precautions and isolation precautions • Learning and practicing aseptic technique • Good personal hygiene practices • Strict disinfection and environmental cleaning in the facility • Proper use of antiseptics and chemical disinfectants • Isolation of infected patients according to standard guidelines:
Are all recommendations for proper
Disease prevention
The passage of water through a selectively permeable membrane.
Osmosis
What is a bacteria resisdant if the GI tract?
Escherichia ColI
E. Coli
What is a nosocomial infection?
Another term for hospital-acquired infection (HAI) or health care–acquired infection; an infection acquired as a result of being in a health care facility.
The spread of HAI from person to person is
Cross contamination
What is routinely performed to differentiate bacteria into two primary groups, namely gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria.
Gram staining
What is the most widespread cause of surgical infections?
Staphylococcus Aureus