Infection Control

3. The organism from which a microorganism takes nourishment.
6. Made free from all living microorganisms.
8. Technique, Method used to make the environment, the worker, and the patient as germ free as possible.
10. To decay, to breakdown.
12. Precautions, A set of precautions that prevents the transmission of bloodborne pathogens when providing healthcare.
13. Process of freeing from microorganisms by physical or chemical means.
14. Genetic material that is surrounded by a protective coat and that can only reproduce inside a host cell; can only be seen under a microscope.
15. Organisms obtaining nourishment from other organisms they are living in or on.
16. Harmless form of pathogen that helps the body develop immunity to a disease.
17. Precautions, Guidelines designed to reduce the risk of transmission of microorganisms from recognized and unrecognized sources of infection in the hospital.

1. Disease causing.
2. Capable of being affected or infected.
4. Carried in the blood.
5. Tiny organism, such as a fungi, protists, or bacteria, that can only be seen under a microscope.
7. Poisonous Substance.
9. Causing to go from one person to another.
11. Soiled or unclean.