Infection & Hazard Control Unit 1 Terms
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| show | Americans with Disabilities Act.
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| show | These are organisms whose growth requires the presence of oxygen in order to live.
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| show | Nebulized particles from potentially infectious materials that would be released through the air.
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| show | An alcohol-containing preparation designed for reducing the number of viable microorganisms on the hands.
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| show | A large group of nonmotile and motile plants without roots, stems, or leaves belonging to the lowest division of the plant kingdom. Algae contain chlorophyll and live in fresh or salt water or in moist places.
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| Allergy | show 🗑
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| show | Organism that grows and lives in the complete or almost complete absence of oxygen.
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| Antimicrobial Soap | show 🗑
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| show | Organisms that exhibit a resistance to one or more of the antibiotics used to treat a disease/illness.
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| Antibody | show 🗑
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| show | A substance that induces the formation of antibodies.
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| Aseptic or Asepsis | show 🗑
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| show | Equipment used for sterilization by steam under pressure.
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| Autogenous Infection | show 🗑
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| show | An abnormal condition in which the body reacts against its own tissues. May result in hypersensitivity and autoimmune diseases.
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| Bacilli | show 🗑
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| show | Small unicellular microorganisms.
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| Bacteremia | show 🗑
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| show | Agent lethal to bacteria but not necessarily their spores.
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| show | The study of bacteria.
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| show | Life
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| show | The airborne transfer of microorganisms through nebulized particles/droplets or spray/mist, etc.
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| Bioburden/Bioload | show 🗑
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| show | The chemistry of life forms.
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| Biofilm | show 🗑
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| show | Material (such as: chemicals, blood or infectious body fluids) that pose a significant risk to humans/living organisms.
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| Biohazard Waste | show 🗑
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| show | Human blood, human blood components, and products that are made from human blood. Blood is a liquid that is composed of plasma and other formed elements. Blood is responsible for transporting oxygen and nutrients to the cells and to remove waste products
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| show | Microorganisms that are present in human blood and can cause disease in humans. These pathogens include, but are not limited to, Hepatitis B & C virus and human immunodeficiency virus.
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| show | Person or animal in apparent good health who harbors and spreads an organism that is pathogenic and can cause disease in others. The carrier may or may not know they are capable of spreading the disease to others.
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| show | A biological, physical, or chemical entity capable of causing disease.
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| show | Cells are the unit of all living tissue and the physical basis of all life processes. Cells and the products of cells comprise all of the tissues of the body.
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| Chlamydiae | show 🗑
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| Clinical Laboratory | show 🗑
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| show | Bacterial cells that are round in shape.
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| Colony-Forming Units (CFU) | show 🗑
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| show | Capable of being transmitted from one person to another.
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| Concentration (Bacterial) | show 🗑
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| show | The period of time that a disease remains contagious. During this time a disease can be transferred to others through direct or indirect contact..
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| show | Highly Communicable: A disease easily spread through direct or indirect contact..
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| show | Soiling with infectious material. The presence or the reasonably anticipated presence of blood or other potentially infectious materials on an item or surface.
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| show | Laundry/linen/clothing which has been soiled with blood or other potentially infectious materials.
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| show | Any contaminated object that can penetrate the skin including, but not limited to, needles, scalpels, broken glass, broken capillary tubes, staples, and exposed ends of dental wires or surgical wires.
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| Contaminated Waste | show 🗑
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| Cross-Contamination | show 🗑
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| show | Growth of microorganisms on nutrient medium.
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| Decontamination | show 🗑
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| show | To render an individual insensitive to any of the various antigens.
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| show | Non-sterile water used during dental treatment, including irrigation of non-surgical operative sites and cooling of high-speed rotary and ultrasonic instruments.
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| show | Disease that require direct contact with another person; sexual contact; direct contact with lesions/blood/salvia/body fluids, in order for transmission to take place.
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| show | A pathological condition of the body that presents a group of symptoms and is considered abnormal. Any alteration of the normal function, structure, part, or system of an organism.
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| show | The method or means by which diseases are spread or transferred from a reservoir to a susceptible host.
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| Disinfectant | show 🗑
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| Disinfection | show 🗑
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| Droplets/Droplet Infection | show 🗑
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| show | Particles < 5um in diameter formed by dehydration of airborne droplets containing microorganisms that can remain suspended in the air for long periods of time.Endemic: Usual, normal, or expected rate of occurrence during outbreaks of infectious diseases.
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| show | Infection originating from microorganism present within the body, such as a previously dormant organism that becomes active resulting in disease or infection. This term is interchangable with the term autogenous, therefore they both have the same meaning.
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| show | The lipopolysaccharide of gram-negative bacteria, the toxic character of which resides in the lipid protein. Endotoxins can produce pyrogenic reactions in persons exposed to their bacterial component.
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| Engineering Controls | show 🗑
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| show | Gram positive bacteria belonging to the family Streptococcus, many of which inhabit the human intestinal tract.
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| Environmental Infection Control | show 🗑
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| show | Surfaces or equipment that does not contact patients directly but can become contaminated during patient care (e.g. touch/transfer surfaces, spray, splash, spatter or droplet surfaces).
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| EPA | show 🗑
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| show | Outbreaks of an infectious disease is excessive of the usual, normal, or expected rate and spreads rapidly among a large number of people or geographic area.
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| show | The science that studies disease and its determinants among people/the population.
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| Etiology | show 🗑
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| Exogenous Infection | show 🗑
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| show | A written plan designated to eliminate or minimize employee exposure.
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| show | A specific eye, mouth, other mucous membrane, non-intact skin, or parenteral contact with blood or other potentially infectious materials that results from the performance of an employee's duties.
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| show | Microorganisms that can grow in either the presence (aerobic) or the absence (anaerobic) of oxygen.
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| show | Any illness with a fever.
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| show | Food and Drug Administration.
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| Fomite | show 🗑
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| show | A cellular organism that subsists on organic matter. Many forms are pathogenic to plants and animals. Includes: mold, yeast, and mushrooms.
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| Fungicide | show 🗑
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| Germicides | show 🗑
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| show | Any bacteria that stains pink/red when using the Gram staining technique.
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| Gram (+) Bacteria | show 🗑
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| show | General term that applies to handwashing (water and non-antimicrobial soap), antiseptic handwash (water and antimicrobial soap), antiseptic hand rub (alcohol-based hand rub), or surgical hand antisepsis (water and antimicrobial soap followed by an alcohol
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| Hazardous Waste | show 🗑
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| Health-Care-Associated Infection | show 🗑
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| Hepatitis B e Antigen (HBeAg) | show 🗑
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| Hepatitis B Immune Globulin (HBIG) | show 🗑
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| show | Protective antibody against HBsAg. Presence in teh blood can indicate past infection with, and immunity to, HBV, or immune response from hepatitis B vaccine.
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| show | Serologic marker detected in high levels during acute or chronic hepatitis. The body normally produces antibodies to surface antigen as a normal immune response to infection.
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| Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) | show 🗑
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| Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) | show 🗑
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| show | Those bacteria requiring an organic carbon source for growth (e.g. deriving energy and carbon from organic compounds).
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| High-Level Disinfection | show 🗑
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| HIV | show 🗑
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| Hospital Disinfectant | show 🗑
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| Host | show 🗑
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| Hypersensitivity | show 🗑
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| Iatrogenic | show 🗑
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| show | The natural or acquired resistance to a disease.
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| show | Process by which a person becomes immune, or protected against a disease. Vaccination is defined as the process of administering a killed or weakened infectious organism or a toxoid; however, vaccination does not always result in immunity.
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| show | The science that studies immunity/immune system.
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| Immunosuppressed | show 🗑
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| show | Device placed into a surgically or naturally formed cavity of the human body and intended to remain there for > 30 days.
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| Independent Water Reservoir | show 🗑
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| show | Diseases are transmitted by indirect contact with objects, surfaces, equipment, instruments, etc. that have been contaminated.
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| Infection | show 🗑
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| show | Controlling microbial contamination and the spread of disease/infection.
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| show | Waste capable of causing an infectious disease.
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| Intermediate Host | show 🗑
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| Intermediate-level Disinfectant | show 🗑
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| Intermediate-Level Disinfection | show 🗑
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| show | Milky white fluid extracted from the rubber tree and proceed into rubber products (e.g. latex gloves).
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| show | Liquid chemical germicide registered with EPA as a hospital disinfectant. OSHA requires low-level hospital disinfectants also to have a label claim for potency against HIV and HBV if used for disinfecting clinical contact surfaces.
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| Low-Level Disinfection | show 🗑
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| show | Practices that kill or reduce the number of microorganisms and/or prevent or reduce transmission from one person to another. Also referred to as "clean technique". Examples: handwashing, use of barriers, environmental controls such as cleaning and disinfe
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| show | Any solid waste generated in the diagnosis, treatment, or immunization of humans or animals. Does not include hazardous or household waste.
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| Microbiology | show 🗑
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| show | Living organisms of microscopic size.
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| show | Multicellular fungi.
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| show | The study of form & structure of organisms.
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| Multicellular | show 🗑
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| show | Capable of changing the genetic pattern in order to survive current conditions and to resist efforts to be killed or destroyed.
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| Mycology | show 🗑
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| show | Are bacteria that belong in the class known as Mollicutes. They lack a rigid cell wall and are the smallest free-living organisms found in nature. Only two genera are pathogenic to humans ( Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Ureaplasma) and cause respiratory and g
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| Nebulize | show 🗑
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| show | A device that does not use needles for: (A) the collection of bodily fluids or withdrawal of body fluids after initial venous or arterial access is established: (B) the administration of medication or fluids; or (C) any other procedure involving the poten
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| NCDEHNR | show 🗑
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| show | National Institute Occupational Safety And Health
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| show | microorganisms that are harmless and not capable of producing disease.
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| Normal Flora | show 🗑
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| show | Hospital acquired infections. The infections are acquired in a hospital as a result of medical care.
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| show | Reasonably anticipated skin, eye, mucous membrane, or parenteral contact with blood or other potentially infectious materials that may result from the performance of an employee's duties. (Student Duties).
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| OPIM | show 🗑
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| show | Microorganisms which are normally not harmful but can become pathogenic if the body's defenses are reduced.
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| show | Occupational Safety Health Administration.
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| show | The rate of an outbreak of an infectious disease is widespread over a large geographical area, such as a country or the world.
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| show | Means of piercing mucous membranes or skin barrier (through the skin), such as piercing/puncturing the skin barrier through events as needle- sticks, bites, cuts, abrasions, or any break that may occur to the skin or mucous membranes.
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| Pathogenic Waste | show 🗑
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| Pathogens | show 🗑
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| Persistent Activity | show 🗑
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| show | (PPE) Is specialized clothing or equipment worn by an employee/student for protection against a hazard. General work clothes (such as: uniforms pants, shirts, blouses) not intended to function as protection against a hazard are not considered to be person
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| Phagocytes | show 🗑
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| Phlebotomy | show 🗑
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| show | Protein particle lacking nucleic acid that has been implicated as the cause of certain neurodegenerative diseases (e.g. scrapie, CJD, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
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| Protozoa | show 🗑
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| Protozoology | show 🗑
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| Quality Assurance | show 🗑
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| Quality Control | show 🗑
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| Reasonably Anticipated | show 🗑
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| Regulated Waste | show 🗑
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| show | Is a place where infectious agents can survive.
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| show | Ability to withstand unfavorable conditions, ability to withstand destruction.
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| show | Entry of oral fluids and microorganisms into waterlines through negative water pressure.
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| show | This is a group of microorganisms which combine aspects of both viruses and bacteria. They differ from bacteria in that they are obligate parasites requiring living cells for growth. They differ from viruses in that they are retained by the Berkeld filter
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| Sanitize | show 🗑
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| Sepsis | show 🗑
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| show | The change of a serological test from negative to positive indicating the development of antibodies in response to infection or immunization.
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| show | Any individual, living or dead, whose blood or other potentially infectious materials may be a source of occupational exposure to the employee/student.
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| SPICE | show 🗑
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| show | Spiral-shaped motile microorganisms.
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| show | The form taken by bacteria to enable them to become resistant and withstand unfavorable conditions such as heat, drying, cold, and many chemical compounds. Endospore means the spore is located within the cell structure.
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| show | Precautions that the CDC developed in 1996 that augment OSHA's Universal Precautions and the body substance isolation practices. Standard Precautions are designed to protect all health care providers, patients, and visitors. This concept treats all body f
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| show | Free from all living microorganisms and their products. Sterilization is the destruction of all microorganisms.
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| show | Practices designed to render and maintain objects and areas as maximally free from microorganisms as possible. Also referred to as "sterile technique". All microbial life are destroyed before an invasive procedure is performed such as surgery. The equipme
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| show | Person or animal lacking effective resistance to a particular pathogenic agent.
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| show | Chemical agent capable of destroying/killing the Mycobacterium tuberculosis organism.
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| show | An bacterial infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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| show | Device that removes debris by a process called cavitation, in which waves of acoustic energy are propgated in aqueous solutions to disrupt the bonds that hold particulate matter to surfaces.
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| show | Composed of only one cell.
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| Universal Precautions | show 🗑
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| Vaccine | show 🗑
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| Vector | show 🗑
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| show | The study of viruses.
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| Virucide | show 🗑
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| show | The ability to infect or produce disease (strength or power).
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| Virus | show 🗑
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| show | Automatic unit that cleans and thermally disinfects instruments, by using a high-temperature cycle rather than a chemical bath.
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| show | Absorption of a liquid by capillary action along a thread or through the material (e.g. penetration of liquids through undetected holes in a glove).
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