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ST220 Q1

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