Hygiene definitions
Across
- 3. A chemical agent that is used to reduce microorganisms on inanimate objects to a safe level
- 4. You catch an infection from playing with a dog - this is what form of transmission?
- 6. Can grow in the absence of oxygen
- 8. Sneezing causes what type of transmission of infection?
- 9. A method to penetrate objects and sterilise them
- 11. The process of destroying ALL micro-organisms and their pathogenic products such as spores from an inanimate object
- 12. An infectious part of the life cycle of some microorganisms
- 13. An inanimate object that can spread infection
- 14. Agent that will kill viruses
- 16. The process of destroying ALL micro-organisms
Down
- 1. Agent will prevent the growth of fungi
- 2. A food storage method that prevents growth of bacteria but doesn't kill them
- 5. A protozoal microbe
- 7. Hair pus and faeces are all forms of what debris?
- 10. Stops the growth of bacteria on living tissue but doesn't kill them outright
- 15. Putting animals that are infected in a separate area