Infection Terminology Game

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Across
  1. 1. Devices with sharp points or edges that can puncture or cut skin.
  2. 3. The process of eliminating all forms of microbial life
  3. 6. Public health conditions related to clean drinking water and treatment and disposal of human excreta and sewage.
  4. 7. member of a unicellular microorganism that have walls but lack nucleus, can cause disease
  5. 9. A phylum or group of phyla that comprises the single-celled microscopic animals
  6. 10. Transmission of diseases or infections through physical contact between an infected person and a susceptible individual.
  7. 13. Infectious agents composed of genetic material (DNA or RNA) enclosed in a protein coat, and they require a host cell to replicate.
  8. 14. The state of being free from disease-causing microorganisms
  9. 16. Transmission of diseases or infections through contact with contaminated surfaces or objects.
  10. 17. The practice of using antiseptic agents to inhibit or prevent the growth and spread of microorganisms on living tissues,
  11. 18. An organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense
  12. 19. Organisms typically insects like mosquitoes or ticks, that can transmit diseases from one host to another.
  13. 20. Stands for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Down
  1. 2. Bodily fluids that can spread infection from one person to another through direct contact.
  2. 4. saprophytic and parasitic spore-producing eukaryotic typically filamentous organisms formerly classified as plants that lack chlorophyll.
  3. 5. A regulation that prescribes safeguards to protect workers against health hazards related to bloodborne pathogens.
  4. 8. Equipment worn to minimize exposure to hazards that cause serious workplace injuries
  5. 11. Device used in healthcare and laboratory settings to sterilize equipment and materials by using steam and high pressure.
  6. 12. Infection(s) acquired during the process of receiving health care that was not present during the time of admission.
  7. 15. any of a group of very small bacteria that includes the causative agents of typhus and various other febrile diseases in humans.