Category 1
Four types of microorganisms
What are Bacteria, Virus, Fungi, Parasites?
These exist almost anywhere, including on skin, in water, in the air, in decayed matter, in body secretions, on clothing, and under the free edge of nails
What is bacteria?
Disease producing when they invade the body.
What is a Pathogen?
The life cycle of bacteria.
What are active and inactive stages?
The stages in which microorganisms grow and reproduce
What is 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 affects humans.
What is Staphylococci?
What is Pediculosis capitis?
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 communicable disease?
Regulates and enforces safety and health standards to protect employees in the workplace.
It is transmitted through unprotected sexual contact, IV drug users sharing needles, and accidents with needles in health-care settings.
What is AIDS?
Contains Pus (Abscess)
What is location infection?