infectious microorganisms that can be classified into groups namely: viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites.
What is agents?
100
infectious agent enters a person who is not resistant or immune
What is susceptible host?
100
this infection control method designed to prevent direct contact with blood and other body fluids and tissues by using barrier protection and work control practices.
What is standard precautions?
100
designed to reduce the risk of droplet transmission o infectious agents.
What is droplet precautions?
100
destroying or suppressing the growth of bacteria
What is antibacterial?
200
method by which an infectious agent leaves its reservoir
What is portal of exit?
200
the destruction of pathogenic microorganisms after they leave the body
What is medical asepis?
200
under this precaution all patients are presumed to be infective blood-borne pathogens
What is standard precautions?
200
used in medical asepsis using various chemicals that can be used to destroy many pathogenic microorganisms.
What is disinfection?
200
a person who is able to spread to others a disease with which he is infected, but of which he usually has no symptoms
What is carrier?
300
specific ways in which microorganisms travel from reservoir to the susceptible host.
What is mode of transmission?
300
What do you use for barrier protection?
What is gloves, masks, goggles, face shields, respirator?
300
second tier of precautions and are to be used when the patient is known or suspected of being infected with contagious diseases
What is transmission based precautions?
300
is an emerging and important problem in the health care field
What is latex sensitivity?
300
originating or produced within the body
What is endogenous?
400
what are the five main types of mode of transmission?
What is contact, droplet, common vehicle, vector borne?
400
worn to provide a protective barrier and to prevent gross contamination of the hands when touching blood, body fluids, secretions, excretions, mucous membranes, and non intact skin.
What is gloves?
400
designed to reduce the risk of transmission of microorganism by direct and indirect contact.
What is contact precautions?
400
a microorganism that require oxygen to survive and multiply
What is aerobe?
400
capable of producing disease
What is pathogenic?
500
allows the infectious agent access to the susceptible host
What is portal of entry?
500
method of infection control that assumed that all human blood and bodily fluids were potentially infectious
What is isolation precautions?
500
are designed to reduce the risk of air borne transmission of infectious agents