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Chapter 16
Question | Answer |
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Antibiotic | A drug that kills certain microbes that cause infection |
Antisepsis | The processes, procedures, and chemical treatments that kill microbes or prevent them from causing an infection |
Asepsis | The absence of a disease-producing microbes |
Biohazardous waste | Items contaminated with blood, body fluids, secretions, or excretions |
Carrier | A human or animal that is a reservoir for microbes but does not develop the infection |
Clean technique | See "medical asepsis" |
Communicable disease | A disease caused b pathogens that spread easily |
Contagious disease | See "communicable disease" |
Contamination | The process of becoming unclean |
Cross-contamination | Passing microbes from 1 person to another by contaminated hands, equipment, or supplues |
Disinfectant | A liquid chemical that can kill many or all pathogens except spores |
Disinfection | The process of killing pathogens |
Healthcare-associated infection | An infection that develops in a person cared for in any setting where health care is given |
Immunity | Protection against a certain disease |
Infection | A disease state resulting from the invasion and growth of microbes in the body |
Infection control | Practices and procedures that prevent the spread of infection |
Medical asepsis | Practices used to reduce the number of microbes and prevent their spread from 1 person or place to another person or place |
Microbe | see "microorganism" |
Microorganism | A small living thing seen only with a microscope |
Non-pathogen | A microbe that does not usually cause an infection |
Normal flora | Microbes that live and grow in a certain area |
Pathogen | A microbe that is harmful and can cause an infection |
Reservoir | The environment in which a microbe lives and grows |
spore | A bacterium protected by a hard shell |
sterile | the absence of all microbes |
sterile field | a work area free of all pathogens and non-pathogens |
sterile technique | see "surgical asepsis" |
sterilization | the process of destroying all microbes |
surgical asepsis | the practices used to remove all microbes |
Vaccination | Giving a vaccine to produce immunity against an infectious disease |
vaccine | a preparation containing dead or weakened microbes |
vector | a carrier that transmits disease |
vehicle | any substance that transmits microbes |
AIDS | Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome |
CDC | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
cm | centimeter |
EPA | environmental protection agency |
GI | gastro-intestinal |
HAI | Healthcare-associated infection |
HBV | Hepatitis B virus |
HIV | Human immunodeficiency virus |
MDRO | Multidrug-resistant organism |
MRSA | Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus |
OPIM | other potentially infectious materials |
OSHA | Occupation safety and health adminitration |
PPE | Personal protective equipment |
TB | Tuberculosis |
VRE | Vancomycin-resistant enterococci |