A microbe that is harmful and can cause an infection.
What is a pathogen?
100
Drugs that kill certain microbes that cause infection.
What are antibiotics?
100
Dogs can transmit this illness
What is rabies?
100
The most important way to prevent the spread of infection.
What is handwashing?
200
Plant-like organisms that live on other plants.
What are fungi?
200
Microbes that live and grow in a certain area, but do not cause infection.
What is normal flora?
200
A disease state resulting from the invasion and growth of microbes in the body.
What is infection?
200
Mosquitoes can carry this illness.
What is Zika, Malaria.
200
The process of becoming unclean.
What is contamination?
300
Grow in living cells.
What are viruses.
300
The environment in which a microbe lives and grows.
What is a reservoir?
300
4 signs and symptoms of infection.
What are: Fever, chills, tachycardia, rapid breathing, nausea, vomiting, pain/tenderness at site, redness, swelling, warmth at site, diarrhea, rash, sores on mucous membranes,
joint pain, headache, etc?
300
Ticks can carry this type of microbe.
What is rickettsiae?
300
Practices used to remove or destroy pathogens, and to prevent pathogens from spreading.
What is clean technique (medical asepsis)?
400
The organism that causes Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.
What is rickettsiae?
400
Microbes that can resist the effects of antibiotics.
What is Multi drug resistant organisms?
400
3 examples of susceptible hosts.
What is the very young, the elderly, people who are ill, burn patients, chemotherapy patients, transplant patients, person with a suppressed immune system.
400
This can be a portal of exit.
What is respiratory tract, GI tract, urinary tract, reproductive tract, open wound, blood.
400
Practices that keep items free of all microbes.
What is sterile technique (surgical asepsis)?
500
List the 5 microorganisms we studied in class.
What are bacteria, fungi, protozoa, rickettsiae, and viruses?
500
Two examples of MDROs (multidrug-resistant organisms)
What are MRSA and VRE
500
An infection that develops in a person cared for in any setting where health care is given.
What is a healthcare-associated infection?
500
5 methods of transmitting microbes.
What are air, food, water, blood/body fluids, coughing, eating/drinking utensils, personal care items, direct contact, dressings, insects, animals.
500
3 common medical asepsis practices.
What are handwashing, cleaning surfaces before and after use, cough etiquette, washing fruits and veges, washing dishes with soap and water, and personal hygiene?