Types of Infections
Infections that occur when the body’s defenses are
weak.
What is an opportunistic infection?
In the chain of infection, this is where the pathogen can live and thrive and stay dormant until it is acquired by a host.
What is a reservoir?
What is a fungus?
When organisms and pathogens are present, we define the surfaces or environment as being.
What is contaminated?
The most effective products for reducing the number of germs on the hands of healthcare providers.
What are alcohol based sanitizers?
Diseases that originate outside of the body.
What are exogenous infections?
Urine, Feces, Blood and Body fluids are all examples of this link in the COI.
What is the portal of exit?
Extremely small infectious agents that can multiply only within living things.
What is a virus?
Free from all organisms both pathogenic and nonpathogenic, including spores and viruses.
When hands are visibly soiled, how should you wash your hands?
What is with warm soap and water?
Diseases and illnesses caused from the bite of an insect.
What are vector-borne infections?
The elderly, children and people with weakened immune system are this link in the chain.
What are susceptible hosts?
Viruses typically cannot be treated with this drug.
What is an antibiotic?
The absence of disease-producing microorganisms or pathogens.
How should you clean your hands after touching a patient or the patient’s immediate environment.
What is an alcohol based sanitizer?
An infection acquired by an individual in a healthcare facility
Link in the COI that occurs from direct or indirect contact.
What is the mode of transmission?
Single-cell organisms that grow in a variety of environments.
What is a bacteria?
Uses chemical disinfectants to kill or destroy pathogenic organisms.
What are disinfectants?
This is the first thing you should do after turning the water on.
What is wet your hands?
Examples of this kind of infection are pathogenic organisms, radiation, & chemical.
What are exogenous infections?
What is a vaccine?
A microbe, or any other organism, that lives on or within a living host and at the host’s expense.
What is a parasite?
The process that destroys all microorganisms both pathogenic and nonpathogenic, including spores and viruses. Steam under pressure, gas, radiation and chemicals can be used to sterilize objects.
On any given day, about one in 31 hospital patients has at least one of these.
What is an Healthcare Acquired Infection (HAI)?