Infection Control
Four Types of Microorganisms.
What are bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses?
This exist almost anywhere, including on skin, in water, in the air, in decayed matter, in body secretion, on clothing, and under the free edge of the nail.
What is Bacteria?
Disease Producing when they invades the body
What is Pathogenic Bacteria
The life cycle of bacteria
What are active and inactive (spore forming)?
The stage in which microorganisms grow and reproduce.
What is the Active Stage?
Cells that are formed through binary fission.
What are daughter cells?
Occurs when body tissues are invaded by disease-causing or pathogenic bacteria.
What is infection?
Among the most common bacteria that affect humans.
What is staphylococci?
They are responsible for contagious diseases and conditions, such as head lice.
What are parasites such as the itch mite?
The ability of the body to destroy bacteria that have gained entrance, and thus resist infection.
What is immunity?
Something the body develops after it has overcome a disease, or through
inoculation.
What is acquired immunity?
A disease that is transmittable by contact.
What is a contagious or communicable disease?
A person can be infected with this for many years without having symptoms.
What is HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)?
It is transmitted through unprotected sexual contact, IV drug users sharing needles, and accidents with needles in health-care settings.
What is HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)?
It causes AIDS.
What is HIV?