Terms
Late stages of HIV infection; characterized by secondary infections.
What is Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)?
A division of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) that focuses on disease outbreaks and prevention in the United States of America.
What is the Center for Disease Control (CDC)?
An invasion of the body by microorganisms or pathogens.
What is an infection?
This type of microorganism causes infection and disease.
What is pathogenic microorganisms?
This is the most effective way to prevent the transmission of disease.
What is handwashing?
Diseases that take advantage of already weakened immune systems.
What is opportunistic?
A government agency that regulates products in the food and drug industries and develops nutrition facts labels to help consumers make informed food choices.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
A prime example of this type of infection is when the residential bacterium E. coli of the GI tract enters the urinary tract and causes a UTI.
What is an endogenous infection?
This type of microorganism does not require oxygen to live.
What are anaerobic microorganisms?
This mode of transmission can come from person to person, animal to person, or mother to unborn child.
What is direct contact?
Originating from outside the body.
What is exogenous?
A government agency that recommends practices for maintaining the environment and determines appropriate chemicals for reducing the spread of infection in healthcare facilities while minimizing environmental risks.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
Type of infection where only a specific portion of the body is infected.
What is a local infection?
This is a one celled, animal-like organism.
What is a protozoa?
A six-link model that describes how infectious disease is spread.
What is the chain of infection?
A very serious bacterial infection that most commonly affects the lungs and, before the development of antibiotics, was generally fatal.
What is tuberculosis?
A government agency with 11 divisions that oversee many programs focused on improving the health of Americans.
What is the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)?
Type of infection that can cause fever, muscles aches, nausea, vomiting, and weakness.
What is a systemic infection?
This class of microorganisms are often considered the cause of disease and are treated with antibiotics.
What is bacteria?
This mode of transmission happens when insects carry the pathogen from host to host.
What is Vector-borne?
Chronic, potentially life-threatening form of hepatitis that is transmitted by blood or other bodily fluids, usually during sexual contact or during childbirth.
What is Hepatitis B?
A division of the HHS that conducts research and provides information toward improving public health through 27 different agencies.
What is National Institutes of Health (NIH)?
What is a nosocomial infection?
This type of microorganism is a small and infectious agent that requires a host for survival.
What is a virus?
This mode of transmission happens when pathogens are carried through the air. Some examples are SARS, TB, COVID-19.
What is airborne?