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Chapter 16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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