Chapter 17

2. an object that can be an agent of transfer of pathogens
5. Procedure to prevent contamination during surgery
6. An animal or a plant that harbors or nourishes another organism
9. Any group of minute infections agents lack of independent metabolism and can only replicate in living host cells.
14. Reduction in probability of infection in infectious agents
15. Disease-producing microorganisms
16. Usually an animal carrier of an infected agent
17. Disease causing microorganisms in human blood
19. Occurring in two distinct forms
23. Resulting from the activities of physicians
25. Complete viral particle found to be capable of surviving in crystalline form and infecting a living cell
26. Pathologic interruptions or deviations of a healthy body
27. Chemicals used to free an environment of pathogens
28. Group of Eukaryotic protists, molds, yeasts, smuts
29. Toxic invasion and multiplication of microorganisms in body tissues
31. unicellular parasitic organisms

1. Prokaryotic, ubiquitous single-celled organisms
3. Infection that patients acquire during treatment of another health issue
4. Freedom From Infection
7. Cellular organisms that lack a true nucleus
8. Precautions to prevent the transmission of disease by body fluids and substances
10. Organisms whose cells have a true nucleus
11. Bacteria, Viruses, Fungi, and Protozoa
12. Hospital originated, 72 hour incubated infection after admittance to a hospital
13. Passive carrier and source that harbors pathogenic organisms
18. Treatment of disease by chemical agents
20. Security against a particular disease
21. Complete distruction/elimination of all living microorganisms
22. Microbial community found on a healthy person
24. Parasitic enclosed wall life cycle stage
30. Suspension of killed microorganisms administered for prevention of an infectious disease