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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