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Question: What is an infection?
Answer: The invasion of a susceptible host by pathogens or
microorganisms resulting in disease
,Question: What is colonization?
Answer: When a microorganism invades the host but does not
cause infection
Question: What is a communicable disease?
Answer: An infectious disease transmitted from one person to
another
Question: When pathogens multiply and cause clinical signs
and symptoms, what is the condition called?
Answer: Symptomatic infection
Question: When clinical signs and symptoms are not present,
what is the condition called?
Answer: Asymptomatic illness
Question: What is the most important technique for preventing
and controlling infection transmission?
Answer: Hand hygiene
Question: What are the components of the chain of infection?
Answer:
,(1) Infectious agent
(2) Reservoir
(3) Portal of exit
(4) Mode of transmission
(5) Portal of entry
(6) Susceptible host
Question: What is direct contact transmission?
Answer: Person to person or person to source contact
Question: What is indirect contact transmission?
Answer: Contact through an inanimate object
Question: What is droplet transmission?
Answer: Transmission through coughing, sneezing, or talking
within about three feet
Question: What is airborne transmission?
Answer: Transmission through particles suspended in air or
carried on dust
, Question: What are vehicle transmissions?
Answer: Transmission through food, water, drugs, blood, or
contaminated objects
Question: What is vector transmission?
Answer: Transmission by insects such as mosquitoes, fleas, lice,
or ticks
Question: What does immunocompromised mean?
Answer: Having a weakened immune system
Question: What is virulence?
Answer: The ability of a microorganism to cause disease
Question: What are aerobic bacteria?
Answer: Bacteria that require oxygen to survive
Question: What are anaerobic bacteria?
Answer: Bacteria that thrive without oxygen