Across
- 5. Chemicals used to destroy microbes on external surfaces such as floors, tabletops and equipment
- 7. Virus steals the hosts membrane and glycoproteins during exocytosis (budding)
- 9. Touching surfaces contaminated with bodily fluids
- 10. Heat treatment, disinfectant chemicals, heavy metal equipment, UV light
- 12. (Nucelotides) RNA or DNA information
- 15. Spiral shaped or filamentous
- 16. Time between infection and first noticable symptoms; Some pathogens spread undetected during this time
- 17. Blood-sucking insects like mosquitos, ticks, kissing bugs etc
- 18. Protein shell that protects the genetic material
Down
- 1. transmission Arthropod insect carries pathogens on its feet
- 2. Sharps (Dirty needles or razors); Transfusion; Sexual intercourse (STDs); Insect vectors
- 3. A virus with genetic material housed in a geometric protein capsid (non-enveloped)
- 4. transmission Inanimate resevior: Contaminated food, water, air or soil
- 6. Mucus droplets spread by coughing or sneezing
- 8. Exposure to communicable disease by physical contact
- 11. The host mistakenly makes copies of the virus and spreads the infection, causing tissue damage
- 13. Drugs that destroy the virus directly or inhibit (slow down) their replication
- 14. The 'spike' proteins found in the viral envelope; The key that the virsus first uses to enter the cell and cause infection