Across
- 1. stage in life cycle of certain parasites;enclosed in protective wall
- 6. Security against a particular disease
- 10. Interruptions of normal function of any part, organ, or system.
- 12. must be free living, parasitic existences
- 13. originating in the hospital
- 16. Freedom from infection
- 17. Minute infectious agents not resolved in light microscope
- 21. Infection pts acquire while receiving care
- 23. Treatment of disease by chemical agents
- 26. Procedure used to prevent contamination by microbes and endospores
- 29. Disease-producing microoraganisms
- 31. Object thats not harmful but able to harbor pathogenic microorganisms
Down
- 2. Destruction/elimination of all living microorganisms
- 3. Disease causing mircoorganisms that may be in human blood
- 4. Invasion of microorganisms in body tissues
- 5. Administered for prevention, improvement, or treatment of infectious diseases.
- 7. Bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa
- 8. Prokaryotic single-celled organisms
- 9. Decreases the probability of infection but does not reduce it to zero.
- 11. Prevent the transmission of disease by body fluid and substances
- 14. Treatment of inanimate materials or reduce/eliminate infectious organisms.
- 15. Mushrooms, yeast, rusts, molds
- 18. Organisms whose cells have a true nucleus
- 19. animal or plant harbors another organism
- 20. Alternative/passive host or carrier that harbors pathogenic organisms
- 22. Occurring in two distinct forms
- 24. Lack true nucleus
- 25. Microbial community found in/on a healthy person
- 27. Resulting from the activities of physicians
- 28. carrier that transfers infective agent from host to host
- 30. viral particle found, surviving in crystalline form & infecting living cell