Section 1 - D& E

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Across
  1. 5. This type of immunity develops as a result of an individual acquiring a specific disease:
  2. 7. This is the single most crucial way to prevent the spread of HAIs:
  3. 9. This is the most frequent and most important transmission route for the spread of HAIs.
  4. 10. What virus causes chicken pox?
  5. 12. This type of transmission involves an infectious agent disseminated through the air over a long distance, typically 6 feet or more, or even as far as miles away:
  6. 13. This combines the major features of Universal Precautions and Body Substance Isolation and therefore are stricter than OSHA guidelines and are the voluntarily accepted standard of care in the U.S. health care facilities:
  7. 15. This type of transmission involves a contaminated inanimate vehicle, known as a fomite, for transmission of the infectious agent to multiple persons.
Down
  1. 1. This term is used to describe infections that developed in the hospital or to describe infections that were acquired in the hospital but did not develop until after discharge:
  2. 2. This is where the microorganism lives and reproduces:
  3. 3. A sudden change in behavior due to abnormal electrical activity in the brain:
  4. 4. This is the process by which pathogenic organisms, but generally spores, are destroyed:
  5. 6. This is the process by which all microorganisms are destroyed:
  6. 8. This type of transmission route involves the rapid transfer of the infectious agent through the air over short distances:
  7. 11. This is a life-threatening condition due to a severe allergic reaction causing bronchial airway to constrict:
  8. 14. Animal, usually an arthropod, that carries and transmits a pathogen capable of causing disease: