Infection Control key terms

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Across
  1. 2. protects human health and the environment
  2. 8. department responsible for protecting the health of all Americans
  3. 11. infection a patient gets while receiving medical care for another condition
  4. 13. federal agency that ensures healthy working conditions by setting and enforcing standards
  5. 14. attacks the lungs and can affect other body parts like kidneys, spine, or brain
  6. 18. spore-producing organisms feeding on organic matter
  7. 19. a tiny infectious agent that can't reproduce on its own
  8. 20. rarely affecting patients except in unusual circumstances,typically when the immune system is depressed
  9. 22. U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  10. 23. diverse single-celled organisms
  11. 24. U.S. federal law that sets national standards to protect sensitive patient health information
  12. 25. the way an infectious agent travels from a source to a new host
  13. 26. the United nations' specialized agency for global public health
  14. 27. state agency managing health-and-human related services for all North Carolinians
  15. 30. Enterococcus bacteria that have evolved resistance to the powerful antibiotic vancomycin
  16. 31. specific way infectious pathogens enter a new host's body to cause a disease
  17. 32. federal administration in charge of the saftey of food and drugs
Down
  1. 1. pathway a pathogen uses to leave its host to infect a new one
  2. 3. causes inflammation of the liver
  3. 4. group of large unicellular microorganisms
  4. 5. a type of staph bacteria resistant to several common antibiotics
  5. 6. any person, animal, plant, soil, or substance where an infectious agent lives.
  6. 7. an individual or organism vulnerable to infection because their defenses are weakened.
  7. 9. most severe,late stage of HIV infection
  8. 10. primary agency for biomedical and public health research
  9. 12. having an internal cause or origin
  10. 15. a microorganism that invades a living host and multiples that can cause a disease
  11. 16. causes diarrhea and colitis
  12. 17. standardized document providing detailed health,saftey,and hazard information for specific things
  13. 21. causes inflammation of the liver but is chronic
  14. 23. any organism or agent that can cause a disease in a host
  15. 28. a virus that attacks the body's immune system
  16. 29. relating to or developing from external factors