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LO1 - LO3 Exam 1 questions withcomplete solutions
ARO - correct answer ✔✔Antibiotic Resistant Organism
Asepsis - correct answer ✔✔The absence of disease causing microorganisms; infection free
Antiseptic - correct answer ✔✔A chemical substance that inhibits the growth and reproduction of
microbes but does not kill them; not toxic to humans
Bacteria - correct answer ✔✔A type of organism that exists in out environment that can rapidly multiply
Barrier - correct answer ✔✔A blockade placed between things to block the sptead of microorganisms
Carrier - correct answer ✔✔A person or animal who has no signs of illness but had microbes which can
be spread to others and make them ill with the disease
Chain of infection - correct answer ✔✔The cycle of pathogen transmission
Clean - correct answer ✔✔Free from debris
Communicable - correct answer ✔✔Capable of beig transferred from one person or place to another
person or place; contagious
Contaminate - correct answer ✔✔To be made unclean; unsterile; contain or be suspected of containingn
disease producing microbes
Contamination - correct answer ✔✔Containing microbes; not clean
, Cross-infection - correct answer ✔✔Infection spread between individuals who are infected with different
diesease producing microbes
Disinfectant - correct answer ✔✔A chemical substance that kills microbes; used only for objects, not
humans
Fungi - correct answer ✔✔A type of microorganism that lives on plants and animals; yeast and molds
Germ - correct answer ✔✔Same as microbe or microorganism
Germicide - correct answer ✔✔A chemical substance or promise that kills most microbes
Health Associated Infection - correct answer ✔✔An infection that you acquire while you are in a health
care facility; HAI
Infection - correct answer ✔✔The invasion of the body by a microbe capable of causing a disease when
it reproduces and multiplies
Infection control - correct answer ✔✔The use of procedures, techniques and actions to reduce the risk
of spreading infections
Medical Asepsis - correct answer ✔✔Practice that reduce the number of pathogens and prevent their
spread; clean technique
Means of transmission - correct answer ✔✔The way an infection spreads
Microbe - correct answer ✔✔Same as microorganism
Microorganism - correct answer ✔✔Any living matter too small to be seen except with a microscope
Non-pathogenic - correct answer ✔✔Microorganisms not capable of producing disease
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