Def Flashcards
Coagulase
Producing virulent staphocci form clotting
Hyaluroinase
Spreading factor
Epidemiology
Evaluates occurrences of a disease in a population
Nonsocomial infection
Results from pathogen in health establishment
Vectots
Organs that carry pathogen
Resevior
Habitat in which the agent normally lives grows n mutates
Biogenesis
The idea that life arises from another living organism
Spontaneous degeneratiom
That life can come.from nonliving components
FERMENTATION
Process in which substances breakdown into simpler ones
Posturizati
Use of heat to kill certain. Microorganism
Sp
Use to identify unknown species
Nonsocomial
Infection acquired in hospital sett in g
Epidemiology
The study of frequency and distribution of disease
Etiology
Cause disease
Collagenase
Enhances resistenxmce by clotting g