Infection Control

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Across
  1. 2. A bacterium protected by a hard shell
  2. 6. A microbe that is harmful and can cause an infection
  3. 7. Microbes that live and grow in a certain area (2 wds)
  4. 8. A work area free of all pathogens and non-pathogens (2 wds)
  5. 9. Protection against a certain disease
  6. 13. A drug that kills infection causing microbes
  7. 14. The process of destroying all microbes
  8. 15. A disease caused by pathogens that spread easily
  9. 17. Practices and procedures that prevent the spread of infection (2 wds)
  10. 19. Being free of disease producing microbes
  11. 20. Any substance that transmits microbes
  12. 21. A preparation containing dead or weakened microbes
  13. 22. A preparation containing dead or weakened microbes
  14. 24. A disease state resulting from the invasion and growth of microbes
Down
  1. 1. The environment in which a microbe lives and grows
  2. 3. The process of destroying pathogens
  3. 4. A small living thing
  4. 5. The process of becoming unclean
  5. 10. Items contaminated with blood, body fluids, secretions, or excretions (2 wds)
  6. 11. The absence of all microbes
  7. 12. An infection that develops in a person cared for in any setting where health care is given (2 wds)
  8. 16. Practices used to remove or destroy pathogens and to prevent their spread (2 wds)
  9. 18. A microbe that does not usually cause an infection
  10. 22. A carrier that transmits disease
  11. 23. A human or animal that is a reservoir for microbes but does not develop the infection