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Preventing Infection Terminology Flashcards

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Asepsis

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Process of removing pathogens

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Bacteria

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Single called microbes

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Biohazord waste

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Item contaminated by bbf

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Carriers

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Person who carries infection without having an active infection

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Clean technique

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Medical asepsis

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C diff

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Bacteria that causes diarrhea/colitis

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Communicable disease

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Disease caused by microbes, spread easily

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Communicable phase

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Period when person is infectious

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Contamination

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Process of being exposed to micro organisms

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Disinfection

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Process of destroying pathogens

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Droplet

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Small drop of liquid

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Endospore

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Protective shell for bacteria/virus

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Febrile respiratory illness

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Infections like flu

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Fomite

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Any nonliving organism that is capable of carrying infectious organisms

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Fungi

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Microbes that live on organic matter

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Health care associated infection

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When patient get infected from staff

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Incubation period

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Time between exposure to pathogen and appearance of signs and symptoms

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Infection

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Disease state resulting from infection and growth of pathogen

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Infection control

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Policies and procedures to prevent spread of infection

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Methicillin resistant

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MRO that resists antibiotic methicillian

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Microbe

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Organism that can be seen under microscope

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MRO

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Strain of bacteria that is resistant to anti biotics

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Non pathogen

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Microbe that does not usually cause harm

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Normal flora

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Microbes that library in skin, mucus, and gastrointestinal tract

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Organism

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Single or multicellular creature

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Pathogen

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Microbe that causes harm

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Standard practices

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Guidelines that precent spread of infections from bbf

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Sterile

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Free of all microbes

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TB

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Bacterial infection that usually affects lungs

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Vector

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Organism that spreadsheet infection but is not the cause

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Virus

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Infectious particles that infect living cells

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