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Chain of Infection Fill In The Blanks

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Question: To spread any infection, first a pathogen must be present. A pathogen is a a that can cause disease. The causative agent in most diseases is a pathogen.Answer: Infectious
Question: where the lives before it infects the body. Some examples of reservoirs include food, water, animals, insects, soil and humans.A place where microbes grow and reproduce.Answer: reservior
Question: how the pathogen gets out of its host so that it can to another host. Answer: portal of
Question: how the pathogen travels. It is how the gets into a healthy human bodyAnswer: mode of
Question: the where the organisms enter the body.Answer: of entry
Question: the person who is most likely to get the disease such as children, elderly people and those with a compromised immune system. Answer: host
Question: hospital infectionsAnswer: infections
Question: symptomsAnswer: asymptomatic
Question: of the nature of or a symptomAnswer:
Question: the pathogen is acquired from the enviromentAnswer: exogenous
Question: the pathogen arises from the patients normal flora and some form of treatment. ex. or antibioticsAnswer: infection
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