Chapter 1

Question 1

What is infection control

Answer 1

Controlling microbial contamination and infection

Question 2

Girolamo fracastoro

Answer 2

Recognized the existence of tiny living particles that cause catching contagious diseases
Spread by direct contact with humans and indirect contact with objects

Question 3

Antony van Leeuwenhoek

Answer 3

First person to see microbe
Discovered bacteria
Developed a primitive microscope
Named these small forms of life animalcules

Question 4

Louise Pasteur

Answer 4

Know as “father of immunology”
Created first vaccines for rabies anthrax and cholera
Used heat to destroy vegetative bacteria and resistant bacterial spores

Question 5

John Tyndall

Answer 5

Discovered the need for prolonged heating to destroy bacteria
Discovered that bacteria existed in two forms heat sensitive and heat stable

Question 6

Ferdinand Cohn

Answer 6

Discovered endospores