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| It is also called "exposure control plan" by OSHA | Infection Control |
| It is a required office program that is designed to protect personnel against risks of exposure to infection. | Infection Control |
| It is a federal agency that is enacted in 1971. | Occupational Safety and Health Administration |
| It is charged with the enforcement of safety and health legislation | Occupational Safety and Health Administration |
| What are OSHA's Responsibility? | To ensure that employers create safe working environment for its employees. OSHA laws apply to all private employers, regardless of the size of the company. Companies found to be non-compliant with these regulations can face OSHA occupational health and safety fines. |
| Infection Control Authorities: | Centers for Disease and Control (CDC) Other Public agencies Academe Private and Professional organizations. |
| It means the destruction of all life forms | Sterilization |
| According to this author, sterilization is the process of killing or removing all viable organisms. | MIMS-PLAYFAIR |
| Destruction of pathogenic and other kinds of microorganisms by physical or chemical means. | Disinfection |
| What are the two examples of disinfectant? | Chlorine and Bleach |
| A substance that inhibits the growth or action of microorganisms especially in or on living tissue | Antiseptic |
| Examples of antiseptic | Isopropyl Alcohol (70%) |
| Multiplication of microorganism | Infection |
| It is a type of infection when a microbe initially contacted a host | Primary Infection |
| It is a type of infection where is possible when a new microbe enters the host whereby the host's resistance is lowered due to a pre-existing infectious disease. | Secondary Infection |
| It may happen when a patient already suffering from a disease acquires a new infection from another patient or another source. | Cross Infection |
| Is an infection acquired in the hospital | Nosocomial Infection |
| Is an infection due to drug therapy or investigative procedures used by the physician. | Iatrogenic Infection |
| Infection where clinical symptoms are not apparent | Subclinical Infection |
| Some infection remain hidden in the body without causing illness but proliferates and produce disease when the host's resistance is lowered. | Latent Infection |
| Where the characteristic clinical manifestations of the particular diseases is absent. | Atypical Infection |
| Are opportunistic infections caused by normally present bacterial flora of the human body, that is, microorganisms which are not pathogenic under normal conditions. | Endogenous Infection |
| This process of infection is also called AUTOINFECTION. Here, the source of infection is the host's own body. | Endogenous Infections |
| Is an infection from outside the host's body. The source of infection of this infection may come from living or non-living reservoirs | Exogenous Infection |
| It may include humans and animals, the former being the most common. | Living Reservoirs |
| Include the soil where parasitic worm infections cause diseases in humans. | Non-living Reservoirs |
| This small organisms invade the human body or other hosts that causes infection and disease. | Germ Theory |
| Theory which proved that a bacterium causes anthrax and provided the experimental steps. Prove that a specific microbe causes a specific disease. | The Germ Theory of Disease |
| In this theory, he asked to investigate why some vats of alcohol would go bad. | Pasteur's Germ Theory |
| Theory that states a growing, living organism caused the problem | Pasteur's Germ Theory |
| A scientist who pioneered pasteurization. | Louis Pasteur |
| It can be applied to milk, beer, wine, and vinegar | Pasteurization |
| Is a concept where three factors affect the formation of disease or presence of an infection | Epidemiologic Triad of Disease |
| Elderly, infants, immunocompromised, anyone | Susceptible Host |
| Mouth, nose, eyes, cuts in skin | Portal of Entry |
| Direct contact, indirect contact, vectors | Mode of Transmission |
| Bacteria, virus, fungi, parasite | Pathogen |
| Coughing, bodily secretions, feces | Portal of exit |
| This emerged in Guangdong China in 2002 | Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) CoV |
| This emerged in the Middle East in 2012 | Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) CoV |
| This emerged in Wuhan, China in 2019 | SARS-CoV-2 |
| The difference between SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 | Transmission; SARS-CoV-2 can transfer very fast |
| The name of the virus | SARS CoV-2 |
| The name of the illness or disease | COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) |
| What is SARS CoV-2? | Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 |
| This virus has a special ability to survive on surfaces | Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 |
| Mask that are advised to be used | Surgical mask and N95 mask |
| Percentage of protection from surgical mask and N95 mask | 95% from virus |
| Hand-washing and cleaning are important | Second Way |