Across
- 2. transmission also known as droplet infection.
- 3. type of host unable to resist infection by a particular pathogen.
- 4. occur in people with decreased resistance
- 9. means of entering the body.
- 11. pathogen that has access to blood supply
- 12. contact occurs through person to person.
- 13. symptoms appear soon after initial infection
- 14. persistent infection which "comes and goes"
- 16. skin which is not broken
- 17. strength & ability of an organism to cause disease
Down
- 1. skin which has a cut or scrape or needle stick injury
- 5. means through the skin.
- 6. microorganisims present for a long duration
- 7. bacteria, virus, fungus, parasite prion
- 8. transmitted from a person to an object or surfaces then to another person.
- 10. transmitted by contaminated food.
- 15. pathogens are transmitted in fecal matter.