Chapter 10 ebook Flashcards

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Aseptic Techniques

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measures that reduce or eliminate microorganisms

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Microorganisms

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living animals or plants visible only though a microscope are commonly called microbes or germs

dividing into two groups: Pathogens and non pathogens

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Non pathogens

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live abundantly and perpetually on and within the human body

Non pathogens assume one of the two relationships with the human hose-mutually beneficial or neither harming nor helping the host

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Pathogens

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have a high potential causing infectious communicable disease.

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Chain of infection

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  1. An infectious agent
  2. A reservoir for growth and reproduction
  3. An exit route from the reservoir
  4. A means of transmission
  5. A portal of entry
  6. A susceptible host
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