Infectious Diseases

2. This term describes persistent nonpathogenic microorganisms colonizing a host.
4. This term describes the time between exposure to an infectious organism and the appearance of the first symptoms.
5. This antibiotic is the preferred treatment for syphilis.
6. These transmission-based precautions should be used for clients with influenza.
8. These transmission-based precautions should be used for clients with cellulitis or rashes.
10. These are used to help prevent diseases such as measles, varicella, influenza, HPV.
13. These transmission-based precautions should be used for clients with severely compromised immune systems.
15. These transmission-based precautions should be used for clients with tuberculosis.
16. This term describes the cocktail of drugs used to treat HIV.
17. This is the organism that causes chickenpox and herpes zoster (shingles).
19. This is the mode of transmission for the West Nile virus.
21. This term is used to describe a host interaction with an organism.
22. This is the virus that causes SARS.
23. These insects transmit the West Nile virus from birds to humans.
24. This term is used to describe microorganisms present in a host without host interference or interaction.
25. These transmission-based precautions are required when working with patients who have HIV or HBV.

1. This is the mode of transmission for mycoplasma pneumonia.
3. Drinking this puts humans at risk of getting Giardia lamblia diarrhea.
7. This term describes a person, plant, animal, substance, or location that provides living conditions for microorganisms and enables further organism dispersal.
9. This organism has an incubation period of 10 years. After that, it starts to wreak the immune system.
11. This organism is responsible for a severe, diarrhea-causing disease.
12. This is the most important nursing intervention for patients with hypovolemia associated with fluid lost through diarrhea.
14. This is the mode of transmission for tetanus.
18. This general class of drugs is used to treat C-diff infection.
20. This is one of the two organisms responsible for impetigo.