HAI vs CAI
Definition of Healthcare Associated Infection
What is infection that is acquired during stay at hospital?
Agents that kill microorganisms or stop their growth
Name of the cyclical process that can result in the transfer of infectious diseases
Chain of infection
Difference between Healthcare Associated Infection and Community Acquired Infection
What is HAI after 48 hours of admission and within 48 hours after discharge but CAI is within first 48 hours or outside healthcare environment
Most common antibiotic resistant bacteria
What is MRSA
Number of steps in the chain of infection
How many is 6
Time frame for a disease to be a HAI instead of a CAI
after 48 hours of admission or within 48 hours after discharge
Process of which resistant bacteria can pass resistance to other bacteria
What is horizontal gene transfer
A type of control prinicple for managing spread of infection
The name of the bacteria that causes Healthcare Associated pneumonia
What is MRSA?
Number of generations it takes for antibiotic resistance in bacteria to decline
How long is 480 generations
Definition of reservoir in chain of infection
What is a host?
Name of the disease that would occur in pregnant women in the 1950s after giving birth
What is puerperal fever?
Number of days it can take for resistance to develop in bacteria
Two types of sources that result in spread of infection
What are Exogenous and Endogenous