Infection - ANSWER An invasion of body tissue by microorganisms and their subsequent proliferation there, with damage to host tissue.
Infectious Agent
... [Show More] - ANSWER A microorganism that causes infections.
Asepsis - ANSWER Freedom from disease-causing microorganisms.
Medical Asepsis - ANSWER Techniques used to control and to reduce the spread of pathogenic microorganisms. A medical aseptic technique is hand washing.
Surgical Asepsis - ANSWER Techniques used to destroy all pathogenic organisms before they can enter the body. One surgical aseptic technique is sterilization of surgical equipment.
Nosocomial Infections - ANSWER Infections that are associated with the delivery of health-care services in a health-care facility.
Health-Care-Associated Infections - ANSWER Infections that are contracted by either patients or personnel in places where health-care services are delivered.
Bacteremia - ANSWER Bacteria in the bloodstream.
Types of Organisms causing infections? (5) - ANSWER 1.Bacteria
2.Viruses
3.Fungi
4.Protozoa
5.Helminths
Bacteria - ANSWER The most common infection-causing microorganisms, large enough to be seen with light microscope, can replicate outside of host cells, fairly easily grown in laboratory.
Viruses - ANSWER Must enter in living cells in order to reproduce, can only be seen by an electron microscope, cannot be grown in most hospital laboratories.
Fungi - ANSWER Include yeasts and moulds.
Protozoa - ANSWER Single-celled organisms. (Parasite)
Helminths - ANSWER Multicelled organisms. (Parasite)
Communicability - ANSWER The ability for microorganisms to spread from one person to another.
Pathogen - ANSWER Causes disease or infection in a healthy individual.
Opportunistic Pathogen - ANSWER Causes disease only in a susceptible individual.
Virulence - ANSWER The power a pathogen has to overcome the host's defenses.
Inflammation - ANSWER A local and nonspecific defensive response of the tissues to injury or infection.
Signs that characterize inflammation? (5) - ANSWER 1.Pain
2.Swelling
3.Redness
4.Heat
5.Impaired function of the body part, if the injury is severe
Antigens - ANSWER Foreign proteins in the body.
Autoantigens - ANSWER Proteins originating from someone's own body. [Show Less]