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Infection Control

Diseases caused by Microorganisms

Question: What diseases do the diplococci bacteria cause? 
Answer: gonorrhea, meningitis, and pneumonia

Question: What diseases can fungi cause?
Answer: ring worm, athlete's foot, histoplasmosis, yeast vaginitis, and thrush

Question: What kind of microorganism causes diseases such as malaria, amebic dysentery, trichomonas, and African sleeping sickness
Answer: Protozoa

Question: What kind of diseases do the spirilla microorganism cause?
Answer: syphilis and cholera

Question: Diseases such as polio, warts, and herpes are caused by what type of microorganism?
Answer: viruses

Types of Infection

Question: What infection or disease originates within the body?
Answer: Endogenous

Question: What type of infection is acquired within a hospital?
Answer: nosocomial

Question: What is an opportunistic infection?
Answer: an infection that occurs when someones body defenses are weak

Question: What's another name for yeast?
Answer: thrush

Question: the development of Kaposi's sarcoma or pneumocystis carinii pneumonia are examples of what type of infection?
Answer: opportunistic infection

Chain of Infection

Question: What is the beginning of the chain of infection?
Answer: Causative agent

Question: What is the third step in the chain of infection?
Answer: Portal of exit

Question: What are the different types of mode of transmission?
Answer: direct contact, indirect contact,  vectors

Question: What is the portal of entry?
Answer: way for the causative agent to enter the new reservoir or host

Question: Hydrochloric acid in the stomach is an example of what?
Answer: the body's natural defenses

Classes of Microorganisms

Question: What is a simple, one-celled organism
Answer: bacteria

Question: What type of  microorganisms can only reproduce  when they are inside another living cell?
Answer: Viruses

Question: What microorganism is parasitic, meaning that they cannot live outside another living organism?
Answer: RIckettsiae

Question: What is a simple plant like organism that lives on dead organic matter?
Answer: Fungi

Question: What type of microorganism can go from infecting animals to then mutating to infecting humans?
Answer: viruses

Aseptic techniques

Question: What does asepsis mean?
Answer: the absence of disease-producing microorganisms or pathogens

Question: Means free from all organisms, both pathogenic and nonpathogenic, including spores and viruses
Answer: Sterile

Question: What does contamination mean?
Answer: organisms and pathogens are present

Question: What is an example of a disinfectant?
Answer: bleach solutions and zephirin

Question: What are examples of things that can sterilize objects?
Answer: steam under pressure, gas, radiation, and other chemicals