Definitions

Question 1

Define hazard

Answer 1

Something that has potential to harm you

Question 2

Define risk

Answer 2

The likelihood of a hazard causing harm

Question 3

Define commensal organism

and give 2 examples

Answer 3

An organism that doesn’t cause harm, and is on the body surface
e.g. Staph.aureus on the skin, E.coli in the gut

Question 4

Define pathogen (pathogenic organism)

Answer 4

A microorganism that does cause harm

Question 5

Define opportunistic pathogens

and give 1 example

Answer 5

Microorganisms that cause disease

Question 6

Define exogenous infection

Answer 6

An infection caused by agents in the environment

Question 7

Define endogenous infection

Answer 7

An infection caused by agents present inside or on the body

Question 8

Define isolated

Answer 8

That specific organismic is grown

Question 9

Define detected

Answer 9

There is evidence of a reaction

Question 10

Define indicated

Answer 10

That organism has not been seen, but the effects of it has been seen

Question 11

Define zoonosis

Answer 11

A disease that can be transmitted to humans from animals

Question 12

Define antigenic variation

Answer 12

VARIATION on the SURFACE of the antigen

Question 13

Define antigenic shift

Answer 13

Sudden change/mutation

Question 14

Define antigenic drift

Answer 14

Partly mutated

Question 15

Define inoculate

Answer 15

To transfer something to where it can grow or reproduce.

Question 16

What is meant by a sterile site in terms of patient sample collection?

Answer 16

An area with very little cross contamination risks, such as CSF, pleural fluid

Question 17

What is meant by a sterile site in terms of patient sample collection?

Answer 17

An area with very little cross contamination risks,

such as CSF, pleural fluid