infection control
Across
- 1. active against fungi.
- 4. made impure by exposure to a poisonous, polluting substance.
- 5. a bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that can cause disease.
- 6. caused by a virus that attacks the liver and leads to inflammation.
- 8. healthcare-associated infections
- 11. such as penicillin or its derivatives
- 17. ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms
- 19. A serious liver infection caused by the hepatitis B
- 20. rod-shaped bacterium.
- 22. being isolated.
- 23. human-immunodeficiency-virus
- 24. requiring free oxygen
- 26. a microscopic appendage that enables many protozoa
- 27. requiring an absence of free oxygen
- 28. Incapable of causing disease
- 29. can help keep important equipment from being contaminated.
- 30. a fungus that grows in the form of multicellular filaments
Down
- 2. applied to the skin before any kind of surgery
- 3. Chagas disease, cysticercosis
- 7. a microorganism
- 9. group of spore-producing organisms feeding on organic matter
- 10. infectious microorganisms in human blood
- 12. machine used to carry out industrial and scientific processes
- 13. infection caused by an organism that does not normally cause disease
- 14. a microscopic organism
- 15. used early in an outbreak to define cases
- 16. wounds caused by needles that accidentally puncture the skin
- 18. Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- 21. spherical or roughly spherical bacterium.
- 25. process of cleaning something,