Microbiology and Infection Control|
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Abscess - Answer-A localized area of pus in the body.
Aerobes - Answer-Organisms that require oxygen.
Anaerobes - Answer-Organisms that live in the absence of oxygen.
Antibiotics - Answer-Substances that inhibit growth or destroy microbes.
Antibody - Answer-A protein substance that destroys specific materials in
the body, including pathogenic microorganisms.
Antigen - Answer-A foreign substance in the body which encourages
specific immunity to a disease by stimulating the production of antibodies.
Asepsis - Answer-The absence of microbial contamination that can cause
disease.
Bacteremia - Answer-A single or intermittent spread of microbes from a
primary site or infection into the bloodstream.
Carrier - Answer-A person who harbors one or more specific pathogens in
the absence of discernible clinical disease and can transmit that pathogenic
microbe to others.
Culture - Answer-A growth of microbes or other living cells; used primarily
to identify the microbe.
Droplet - Answer-Minute particles of moisture expelled from the respiratory
tract by talking, sneezing, or coughing; can contain microbes and serve as
a route for microbe transfer.
Fomite - Answer-Inanimate object that may be contaminated with
infectious microbes and serves to transmit disease.
