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ST220 Q1
Question | Answer |
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1. The absence of microbes infection | Asepsis |
2. The destruction of all microorganisms, including spores | Sterilization |
3. Contamination of a person or objects by another | Cross contamination |
4. Number of microbes or amt of organic debris on an object at any given time | Bioburden |
5. Microbes that normally reside below the skin surface or within the body | Resident flora |
6. An inatimate object that harbors microorganisms | Fomite |
7. Having been rendered free of all living mocrobes, including spores | Sterile |
8. Agent that kills viruses | Virucide |
9. Contamination of a sterile field that occurs through the passage of fld or puncture in a microbial barrier | Strike-through contamination |
10. Infection, usually accompanied by fever, results from the presence of pathogenic microbes | Sepsis |
11. Items mechanically cleaned & chemically disinfected but not sterile | Surgically cleaned |
12. Any microbe capable of causing disease | Pathogen |
13. To reduce to an irreducible minimum the presence of pathogenic material | Decontamination |
14. The living carrier that transmits disease | Vector |
15. Resistant form of certain type of bacteria, able to survive in adverse conditions | Spore |
16. Substance that destroys/kills bacteria | Bacteriocidal |
17. The presence of pathogenic materials | Contamination |
18. To render items safe to handle by high level disinfection | Terminal disinfection |
19. Microbes that reside on the skin surface & are easily removed | Transient flora |
20. Invasion of the human body or tissue by pathogenic microbes that produce & multiply causing disease | Infection |