MO 171 Final exam with 100% correct solutions 2024

Chain of infection definition correct answers Development of infectious diseases in people Chain of infection correct answers Infectious agent Reservoir Portal of exit Modes of transmission Portal of entry Susceptible host Infectious agent correct answers Virus Bacteria Fungi Parasites Rickettsia Prions Herpes & influenza Reservoir correct answers Location & source of agent People, equipment, supplies, food, water, animals & insects Portal of exit correct answers How an agent leaves the reservoir Respiratory, genitourinary, gastrointestinal & integumentary Modes of transmission correct answers Reservior to susceptible host Contact, droplet, airborne & vector Portal of entry correct answers How an agent enters a susceptible host Nonintact skin, mucous membranes, respiratory, gastrointestinal & reproductive Susceptible host correct answers Without immunity & cant resist colonization Children, elderly & immunosuppressed PTs Interventions to break the chain of infection correct answers Sterilization Clean supplies