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- 1. A federal agency under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that serves to protect public health through the control and prevention.
- 3. a localized reaction that produces redness, warmth, swelling, and pain as a result of infection, irritation, or injury
- 5. preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms
- 8. using specialized cleansing techniques that destroy or prevent growth of organisms capable of infection.
- 10. microorganisms that can grow and reproduce in rich, moist soil where many nutrients are available
- 11. to deprive a substance of its natural qualities
- 13. a technique for destroying microorganisms using heat, water, chemicals, or gases
- 15. The presence of extraneous, especially infectious, material that renders a substance or preparation impure or harmful.
- 16. the process whereby pathogenic organisms are reduced to safe levels on inanimate objects, thereby reducing the likelihood of cross-infection
- 17. guidelines designed by CDC to reduce the risk of transmission of microorganisms from recognized and unrecognized sources of infection in the hospital
- 18. the area in which a microorganism enters the body such as cuts, lesions, injection sites, or natural body orifices.
- 21. partial sterilization of foods at a temperature that destroys harmful microorganisms without major changes in the chemistry of the food
- 22. infection resulting from treatment in a hospital or a health care service unit; older term that is replaced with HAIs
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- 2. process by which an agent leaves its reservoir or host through a portal of exit, and is conveyed by some mode of transmission, then enters through an appropriate portal of entry to infect a susceptible host
- 4. A type of radiation therapy that uses short wavelengths of light that ionize water molecules for sterilization.
- 6. policies and procedures used to minimize the risk of spreading infections, especially in hospitals and human or animal health care facilities
- 7. a disease caused by microorganisms, especially those that release toxins or invade body tissues
- 9. Inhibiting the growth of bacteria
- 12. the process of making a person, object, or environment free of microorganisms, radioactivity, or other contaminants
- 14. infections that patients or residents get while receiving treatment in a hospital or other health care facility, or that health care workers get while performing their duties within a health care setting
- 19. the process of physically removing all foreign material from an object
- 20. cell produced by fungi for reproduction; a resistant cell produced by bacteria to withstand extreme heat or cold or dehydration