Unit 3-MLT 101 Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions
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MLT 101
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MLT 101
Unit 3-MLT 101 Exam Study Guide with
Complete Solutions
Anything harmful or potentially harmful to health - Answer️️ -Biohazard
Safe handling of biologic substances that pose a risk to health - Answer️️ -Biosafety
Infectious microorganism in blood or other bodily fluids - Answer️️ -...
About how many patients have an HAI and die from it - Answer✔️✔️-1 in 25 and 1 in 9
respectively
Steps in the Chain of Infection - Answer✔️✔️-Infectious agent
Reservoir
Exit pathway
Means of transmission
Entry pathway
Susceptible host
Another name for infectious agent - Answer✔️✔️-Causative agent
Place where a microbe can survive, grow, or multiply - Answer✔️✔️-Reservoir
Someone with a decreased ability to resist infection - Answer✔️✔️-Susceptible host
Type of transmission that involves dispersal of infectious agents less than 5 um -
Answer✔️✔️-Airborne transmission
Type of transmission that involves touching something. Most common means of
transmission - Answer✔️✔️-Contact transmission
Types of contact transmission - Answer✔️✔️-Direct; physically touching someone
infected
Indirect; touching something a host has touched
Type of transmission that involves particles greater than 5 um and attacks the mucous
membranes of mouth, nose, or conjunctiva of eyes - Answer✔️✔️-Droplet transmission
Type of transmission that involves an infectious agent such as an animal - Answer✔️✔️-
Vector transmission
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