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- 4. guidelines designed to protect employees against occupational exposure to blood-borne pathogens
- 5. ability of the body to resist disease
- 7. an infection of short duration that's often severe
- 8. touching or contact with a patient's blood or saliva
- 9. immunity that's developed during a person's lifetime
- 11. through the skin, such as with a needle stick, cut, or human bite
- 13. ultimate goal of all infection control procedures and policies
- 14. condition caused by an infection that can be spread from person to person or through contact with body fluids
- 16. guidelines based on treating all human blood and body fluids as potentially infectious
- 17. standard of care designed to protect healthcare providers from pathogens that can be spread by blood or any other body fluids
- 18. an infection that occurs through mucosal surfaces of the eyes, nose, or mouth
- 19. immunity that occurs when a person has contracted and is recovering from a disease
- 20. any reasonably anticipated skin, eye, or mucosa membrane contact or percutaneous injury involving blood or any other potentially infectious materials
- 26. extreme hypersensitivity to a substance that can lead to shock and life-threatening respiratory collapse
- 27. waste that poses a danger to humans or to the environment
- 28. strength of a pathogen's ability to cause disease; also known as pathogenicity
- 29. disease-causing organism
- 30. waste that's capable of transmitting an infectious disease
- 31. policies and practices designed to prevent the spread of infectious agents
- 32. disease that's communicable
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- 1. touching or contact with a contaminated surface or instrument
- 2. an infection of long duration
- 3. persistent infection with recurrent symptoms that 'come and go'
- 6. disease such as HBV, HCV, or HIV infection that's carried by microorganisms such as viruses carried in blood
- 10. immunity that results from a vaccination
- 11. contact with mucous membranes such as the eyes or mouth
- 12. conditions that all must be present for infection to occur
- 15. disease-causing organisms transferred through contact with blood or other body fluids
- 21. items such as gloves and patient napkins that may contain potentially infectious body fluids or patients
- 22. items such as protective clothing, masks, gloves, and eyewear used to protect employees
- 23. immunity that's present at birth
- 24. studies of the patterns and causes of diseases
- 25. pointed or cutting instruments