Characteristics of microbes
The ability to utilize nutrients
What is Metabolism?
Disease producing agents
What are Pathogens?
Tenia capitis and tenia pedis are infections caused by this organism
What are fungi?
CDC
What is the Centers for Disease Control?
Diseases occur if the Chain of infection is broken. True or false
What is False?
Response to the environment
What is irritability?
Organisms with a true nucleus that is enclosed by a nuclear membrane
What are Eukaryotes?
Histoplasmosis is an infection of the lungs caused by this organism
What is Mold?
Tb
What is Tuberculosis?
The single most effective way to prevent the spread of infections.
What is handwashing?
Ability to move from place to place
What is Motion?
DNA or RNA inside a protein sac that does not have a metabolism but invades and dehydrates you
What is a virus?
These long protein filaments allow the organism to "swim" or have spontaneous movement
What is Flagella?
HAI
What is Healthcare Acquired Infection?
The first of the list in the chain of infection
What is a pathogenic microorganism?
Ability to form groups of cells or of an individual cell to become larger
What is Reproduction?
Pairs of rod-shaped bacteria
What is Diplobacilli?
This procedure causes the murein in the cell wall to retain the color and turns it purple.
What is Gram Stain?
C&S
What is Culture and Sensitivity?
Sneezing, coughing, or simply talking for some can be an example of this
What is the vehicle of transmission?
Spores, Mutation, and Development of drug-resistant strains help to achieve this characteristic
What is protection?
This is when normal occurring organisms become pathogenic and cause disease
What is opportunistic?
Bacteria can be classified by their flagella placement, how they move, Gram neg or pos, and shape. Name the last way that they are classified by.
What is relationship with oxygen?
HA-MRSA
What is Healthcare acquired Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus?
The stages of infection
What is incubation stage, prodromal stage, full stage of illness, and convalescent stage?