Infection control and hygiene Unit 3
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| Hygiene | The science of health and its maintenance
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| AM care | Ambulatory care
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| Normal flora (resident flora) | Microorganisms that normally reside on the skin, mucous membranes, and inside the respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts
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| Nonspecific defences | Bodily defences that protect a person against all microorganisms, regardless of prior exposure
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| Specific defences | Ways the body defends itself from microorganisms, mostly involving the immune system, which responds to foreign proteins in the body
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| Pathogen | A microorganism with the potential to cause disease
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| Infection | The disease process produced by microorganisms
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| Health care-associated infections | Infections associated with the delivery of health care services in a health care facility, including hospitals, long-term or continuing care facilities, community care, home care, health care professionals' offices, or test centres
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| Asepsis | Freedom from infection or infectious material
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| Local Infection | An infection that is limited to the specific part of the body where the microorganism remain
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| Systemic infection | An infection that affects the body as a whole
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| Direct contact transmission | Immediate and direct transfer of microorganisms from person to person through touching, biting, kissing, or sexual intercourse, that is body surface to body surface
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| Indirect contact transmission | Passive transfer (indirect, droplets) of microorganisms from reservoir (carrier) to an object (door knob, taps...etc) in the client's immediate environment and then to the recipient (risk of passing illness when individual comes into contact with object.
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| Enamel | The white, compact, hard substance covering the crown of the tooth
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| Dental caries | Tooth decay
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| Plaque | An invisible soft film consisting of bacteria, molecules of saliva, and remnants of epithelial cells and leukocytes that adhere to the enamel surface of teeth
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| Gingivitis | Red, swollen gingiva (gums)
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