Across
- 3. Uses spores to reproduce and grows mainly as a single-celled organism
- 4. An infection that is for a limited amount of time.
- 5. A period without symptoms (from chronic illness)
- 7. The absence of clinical signs and symptoms
- 10. Single-celled organism that ranges in size from microscopic to visible to the naked eye. Likely to be found in water and sewage systems
- 13. A microorganism that is disease causing
- 14. After the inital infection has subsided, not cured, the infection makes a re-emergence
- 16. A type of infection that has signs and symptoms present
- 17. Microscopic life form that is too small to be seen by the naked eye.
- 19. Disease process that results from the entry and spread of a microorganism
- 20. Applied to the affected areas
Down
- 1. Our ability to fight off disease of infection. Can be natural or acquired.
- 2. The period of time where a chronic infection shows symptoms
- 6. An organism that does not cause disease
- 8. An infection that has spread to more than one body system or area
- 9. An infeciton where the symptoms disappear and recur, while the disease causing agent remains in your body
- 11. An infection that does not ordinarily cause a disease except in certain circumstnces, such as an already compromised immune system
- 12. A single celled organism that divides by cell division
- 15. An infection that happens from hospitalization. The infection is not present when admitted to the hospital but is acquired during the hospital stay
- 18. A type of infection that is confined to a specific region on the body