HCB 102 Unit 1 questions with accurate detailed solutions
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Antibacterial - ✔✔effective against bacteria || || || ||
Antiseptic - ✔✔arresting growth of microorganisms
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Asepsis - ✔✔condition of being aseptic
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Bacteria - ✔✔single-celled microorganisms
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Blood-borne Pathogen - ✔✔causative agent located in the blood
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Contagious Disease - ✔✔infectious disease communicable by contact
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Contaminated - ✔✔infected by contact || || || ||
Direct Contact - ✔✔Junction of body surfaces
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Disinfectant - ✔✔substance to free from infection by destroying microorganisms
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Disinfection - ✔✔process to free from infection by destroying microorganisms
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Fungi - ✔✔any of the kingdom, saprophytic, and parasite spore-producing eukaryotic
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Health care associated infections (HAIs) - ✔✔infection acquired in a hospital
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Infection - ✔✔material contaminated with an infective agent
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Isolation - ✔✔A separation to prevent from those who are infected to those who are
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susceptible
microorganism - ✔✔An organism of microscopic or ultramicroscopic size
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Pathogen - ✔✔disease producing microorganisms
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Standard Precautions - ✔✔group of infection prevention practices regardless of diagnosis
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Chain of Infection - ✔✔Infectious agent, reservoir, portal of exit, mode of transmission,
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portal of entry and susceptible host
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Infectious agents (pathogens) - ✔✔bacteria, virus, protozoa, fungi, and helminthes
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Viruses - ✔✔DNA or RNA in a protein coating
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Protozoa - ✔✔Unicellular microorganisms that infect blood
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Helminthes - ✔✔Parasitic worms or flukes || || || || ||
Reservoir - ✔✔A place where pathogen grows
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Portal of Exit - ✔✔An exit route for pathogens to leave its host
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mode of transmission - ✔✔The manner in which an infectious agent moves from one
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source to another || ||
Contact - ✔✔most frequent source of HAIs
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Indirect contact - ✔✔Contact with contaminated inanimate objects
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vector transmission - ✔✔occurs through bite
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Droplet infection - ✔✔occurs when the droplets from an infected person project into host
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airborne transmission - ✔✔occurs when particles dispersed enter host by inhalation
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portal of entry - ✔✔place where pathogen enters body
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Susceptible host - ✔✔a person becomes ill after pathogen enters body and they cannot fight
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pathogen
hand hygiene - ✔✔single most effective method of preventing the spread of microorgansims
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Soap or detergent - ✔✔Aids in the removal of organisms
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Antimicrobial - ✔✔Kills the growth of microorganisms || || || || || ||
Hand sanitizer - ✔✔used before and after each patient
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