Across
- 2. an object that can be an agent of transfer of pathogens
- 5. Procedure to prevent contamination during surgery
- 6. An animal or a plant that harbors or nourishes another organism
- 9. Any group of minute infections agents lack of independent metabolism and can only replicate in living host cells.
- 14. Reduction in probability of infection in infectious agents
- 15. Disease-producing microorganisms
- 16. Usually an animal carrier of an infected agent
- 17. Disease causing microorganisms in human blood
- 19. Occurring in two distinct forms
- 23. Resulting from the activities of physicians
- 25. Complete viral particle found to be capable of surviving in crystalline form and infecting a living cell
- 26. Pathologic interruptions or deviations of a healthy body
- 27. Chemicals used to free an environment of pathogens
- 28. Group of Eukaryotic protists, molds, yeasts, smuts
- 29. Toxic invasion and multiplication of microorganisms in body tissues
- 31. unicellular parasitic organisms
Down
- 1. Prokaryotic, ubiquitous single-celled organisms
- 3. Infection that patients acquire during treatment of another health issue
- 4. Freedom From Infection
- 7. Cellular organisms that lack a true nucleus
- 8. Precautions to prevent the transmission of disease by body fluids and substances
- 10. Organisms whose cells have a true nucleus
- 11. Bacteria, Viruses, Fungi, and Protozoa
- 12. Hospital originated, 72 hour incubated infection after admittance to a hospital
- 13. Passive carrier and source that harbors pathogenic organisms
- 18. Treatment of disease by chemical agents
- 20. Security against a particular disease
- 21. Complete distruction/elimination of all living microorganisms
- 22. Microbial community found on a healthy person
- 24. Parasitic enclosed wall life cycle stage
- 30. Suspension of killed microorganisms administered for prevention of an infectious disease