Question | Answer |
Hospital acquired infections | Nosocomial |
The presence of microorganisms in a living host | Infectious disease |
An organism that is capable of causing an infection | Pathogen |
The degree that a pathogen can cause damage to a host | Virulence |
Short, strong infection (neutrophils, cellulitis, accesses, necrosis) | Acute infection |
Purulent | Pus (dead neutrophils, bacteria and epithelial cells) |
long-standing infection (neutrophils, lymphocytes, plasma cells) mononuclear wbc's | Chronic |
Body tries to block off pathogen w/ hard build up | Granulomatous |
infection that occurs in the immunocompromised host | opportunistic |
neither benefits or harmed on either end | Commensalism or Colonization |
Benefits host and invader | symbiosis |
One benefits and one is harmed | Parasitism |
Lives on dead or organic matter | Saprophyte |
Expose to organism through external sources (Inhalation, ingestion, puncture) | Exogenous |
Exposed to organism through internal sources (something moving from one part of your body to the other because a break in your natural barrier) | Endogenous |
Pain | Dolor |
Calor | Heat |
Rubor | Redness |
Tumor | Swelling |