Key Terms
What is etiology?
Living organisms that cannot be seen with the naked eye.
What are microorganisms?
A single circle bacteria
What is a coccus?
Also known as "opportunistic infections"
What are fungal infections?
The person who can get infected
What is the susceptible host?
Probable Outcome
What is prognosis?
Organisms that do not cause disease or infection.
What are nonpathogenic microorganisms?
A pair of rod-shaped bacteria
A microbe that can only multiple within the cells of a living host.
What is a virus?
The place where the pathogen lives.
What is the reservoir or source?
Condition that makes it more likely that someone will get the infection/injury/disease.
What are risk factors?
Microorganisms that occur in our body that help our bodies function properly.
What is normal flora?
A cluster of comma shaped bacteria
What are staphylovibrio?
Yeast infection of the mouth
What is thrush?
What is airborne, droplet and contact?
Lack of blood flow.
What is ischemia?
Microbes that are classified by the way they move.
What are protozoa?
A chain of spiral shaped bacteria.
What are streptospirillum?
Yeast infection that causes distinct "circles" on the body
What is ringworm?
The number one way to stop the spread of infection.
What is handwashing?
Non-cancerous
What is benign?
Examples would be lice, scabies, and bed bugs.
What are multicellular parasites?
The two antibiotic-resistant bacteria we learned.
What are MRSA and VRE?
List at least 3 common viruses.
What is chicken pox, measles, herpes, HIV, HPV, influenza, common cold, hepatitis, or norovirus?
The correct medical term for "living organisms that transmit disease" and "inanimate objects that transport microbes".
What are vectors and fomites?