Principles of Infection Control
AKA microbe, is a small, living organism that is not visible to the Naked Eye.
What is a Microorganism?
What is Cocci?
This is caused by a variant of the coronovirus family that causes the common cold and COVID-19.
It's characterized by flu-like symptoms that can lead to respiratory failure and death.
What is Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)?
This means the infection or disease originates within the body.
What is Endogenous?
A Pathogen, such as a bacterium o rvirus that can cause a disease.
What is an Infectious Agent?
This is a part of the normal flora of the body and is beneficial in maintaining some body processes.
What is a nonpathogen?
If Cocci occur in pair, they are called this.
What is Diplococci?
This is a mosquito-bourne flavivirus that first infected birds but now infects humans.
It causes a mild febrile illness but can cause severe neurologic illnesses such as meningitis, which can lead to death.
What is the West Nile Virus (WNV)?
This means the infection or disease originates outside the body.
What is Exogenous?
Two part answer:
An area where the infectious agent can live; some common reservoirs include the human body, animals, the evironement, and THIS, or objects contaminated with infectious material that contains the pathogens.
What is a Reservoir and Formites?
Other microorganisms that cause infection and disease is called (THIS), or germs.
What is a Pathogen?
Also called Strep or flesh-eating strep, this causes necrotizing fasciitis that destroys tissues and can result in amputation or death.
What is Steptococcus Pyogenes?
This is a hantavirus that affects monkeys, other primates, and rodents, mutated and spread to humans.
It causes severe flu-like symptoms, lymphadenopathy (disease of the lymphnodes), and pustules that cause severe scarring of the skin.What is Monkeypox?
This is formally referred to as nosocomial or hospital-acquired and is an infection acquired by an individual in a healthcare facility such as a hospital or long-term care facility. Examples include, staphylococcus.
What is a Healthcare-associated infection (HAI)?
This is a way for the infectious agent to escape from the reservoir in which it has been growing.
What is the Portal of exit?
This is an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (host) and benefits by getting nurtients at the host's expense.
What is a parasite?
This is a serious infection usually caused by eating contaminated food with the bacillus baterium Listeria monocytogenes.
What is Listeria (Listeriosis)?
Filoviruses such as this and Marburg first affected primates and then spread to human.
They cause hemorrhagic fever, that begins with flu-like symptoms, myalgia (muscle pain), and a skin rash that can quickly progress.
What is Ebola?
These infections are these that occur when the body's defenses are weak. They do not usually occur in individuals with intact immune systems.
What are Opportunistic Infections?
This is a way that the infectious agent can be transmitted to another reservoir or host where it can live.
What is the Mose of transmission?
What are Aerobic and Anaerobic Organisms?
Bacteria that are spiral or corkscrew in shape are called this.
What is Spirilla?
These three viruses are a major concern to healthcare providers due to their nature of being difficult to destroy and/or lack of preventative care, vaccine, or cure.
What is Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)?
What are toxins?
Two part answer:
This is a way for the infectious agent to enter a new reservoir or host. One of the body defenses includes this type of person who is likely to get an infection or disease, usually because the body defenses are weak.
What is the Portal of Entry and a Susceptible Host?