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Infection control
Infection control terms
Term | Definition |
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MICROORGANISM | A small living organism that is not visible to the naked eye. |
NONPATHOGENS | Microorganisms that are a part of normal flora in the body and are beneficial in maintaining certain body processes. |
PATHOGENS | Microorganisms that cause disease and infection |
AEROBIC ORGANISM | These type or microorganisms require oxygen to live |
ANAEROBIC ORGANISM | This type of microorganism can live and reproduce in the absence of oxygen |
BACTERIA CAUSED DISEASE | Gonorrhea, Meningitis, and Pneumonia |
PROTOZOA CAUSED DISEASE | Malaria, Amebic Dysentery, Trichmonas, and African Sleeping Sickness |
FUNGI CAUSED DISEASE | Ringworm, Athlete's Foot, yeast vaginitis, and thrush |
RICKETTSIAE CAUSED DISEASE | Typhus Fever and Rocky Mountain Spotted fever |
VIRUS CAUSED DISEASE | Common cold, Measles, Mumps, Chickenpox, Influenza, and Polio |
HEPATITIS B | is Inflammation of the liver, caused by the HBV virus. It is transmitted by blood, serum and other bodily |
ENDOGENOUS | The infection originates within the body, like metabolic disorders |
EXOGENOUS | Means the infection or disease originates outside the body. Pathogens that invade the body, radiation, chemical agents, trauma, electric shock and extreme temperatures |
NOSOCOMIAL | An infection that is acquired by a person in a health care facility such as a hospital or long term care. |
OPPORTUNISTIC | This infection occur when the body's defenses are weak, such as Pneumocystis that occur when a person has AIDS |
STERILE | This means to be free of all organisms, both pathogenic and nonpathogenic, including spores and viruses. |
ANTISEPSIS | They prevent or inhibit the growth of pathogenic organisms |
DISINFECTION | This is a process that destroys or kills pathogenic organsms. It is not always effective against spores and viruses |
STERILIZATION | This process destroys all microorganism, both pathogenc , nonpathogenic, including spores and viruses. They used steam under pressure, gas, radiation and chemicals. |
BIOTERRIORISM | The use of microorganisms,or biological agents, as warfare to infect humans, animals, or plants |
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