Across
- 3. good hand __________ is the best way to prevent infections
- 4. essential for a strong immune response
- 7. clothing or equipment worn by an employee for protection
- 10. a place where a pathogen flourishes
- 11. a serious skin infection
- 14. type of disease causing pathogen related to bodily fluids
- 17. an infection that has entered the blood stream
- 20. a bacterium, virus, or fungus
- 21. invasion of the body by pathogens
- 23. a disease causing organism
- 24. state of being free from all living microorganism
- 25. a pathogen no nonger affected by an antibiotic is ______
Down
- 1. Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- 2. a symptom that might indicate a resident has c.diff
- 5. protection against a disease
- 6. an airborn disease spread by coughing
- 8. air sacs may fill with fluid or pus with this disease
- 9. Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
- 12. an abnormally elevated body temperature
- 13. the destruction of pathogens
- 15. chemicals used to destroy pathogens on hard surfaces
- 16. a product that produces immunity
- 18. precautions used for isolating a coughing resident
- 19. state of having been in contact with microorganisms
- 22. use of practices aimed at destroying pathological organisms