FINAL TEST (ULTIMATE STUDY GUIDE) | FROM
QUESTION TO PERFECTION| STUDY WITH
CONFIDENCE!
Microorganism - Answer: tiny living plant animal. Cannot be seen with the naked eyes.
Must be viewed by microsoope
5 Common types of microorganisms - Answer: Bacteria Fungi Animal parasites viruses
Protozoa
Nonpathogen - Answer: microorganism that does not normally cause disease
Pathogen - Answer: disease-producing microorganism
Medical Aspecis - Answer: practices that are employed to reduce the number and hinder
the transmission of pathogens
Autotroph - Answer: Uses inorganic or non living substances for food
Heterotroph - Answer: Uses organic or living substances for food
Aerobe - Answer: Need oxygen to grow
Anaerobe - Answer: Grows best in absence of oxygen
Optimum growth temperature - Answer: 98.6 is the temperature at which a microorganism
grow best
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, Microorganisms grow best in - Answer: darkness
Microorganisms needs _______ for cell metabolism and to carry away wastes - Answer:
moisture
Most microorganisms prefer a ______ PH - Answer: Neutral
Too acidic or too basic - Answer: Microorganisms die if growth requirements are taken away
from microorganisms
Infection process cycle - Answer: Pathogen must have continuous cycle to survive the
responsibility of HCW is to break the cycle.
Resvoir host - Answer: One that becomes infected by the pathogen (humans or animals)
Means of exit from the resvoir host are - Answer: Mouth nose throat ears eyes intestinal
tract urinary tract reproductive tract and open wounds
Means of transmission from one person to another - Answer: Water vapor from the lungs (
breathing coughing sneezing), Contaminated hand/equipment, contaminated food water
and insects.
Means of transmission into the host - Answer: Mouth nose throat ears eyes intestinal tract
reproductive tract, open unumose, break in the skin and mucous membranes
Succeptible host - Answer: On who is capable of being infected by the pathogen
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QUESTION TO PERFECTION| STUDY WITH
CONFIDENCE!
Microorganism - Answer: tiny living plant animal. Cannot be seen with the naked eyes.
Must be viewed by microsoope
5 Common types of microorganisms - Answer: Bacteria Fungi Animal parasites viruses
Protozoa
Nonpathogen - Answer: microorganism that does not normally cause disease
Pathogen - Answer: disease-producing microorganism
Medical Aspecis - Answer: practices that are employed to reduce the number and hinder
the transmission of pathogens
Autotroph - Answer: Uses inorganic or non living substances for food
Heterotroph - Answer: Uses organic or living substances for food
Aerobe - Answer: Need oxygen to grow
Anaerobe - Answer: Grows best in absence of oxygen
Optimum growth temperature - Answer: 98.6 is the temperature at which a microorganism
grow best
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, Microorganisms grow best in - Answer: darkness
Microorganisms needs _______ for cell metabolism and to carry away wastes - Answer:
moisture
Most microorganisms prefer a ______ PH - Answer: Neutral
Too acidic or too basic - Answer: Microorganisms die if growth requirements are taken away
from microorganisms
Infection process cycle - Answer: Pathogen must have continuous cycle to survive the
responsibility of HCW is to break the cycle.
Resvoir host - Answer: One that becomes infected by the pathogen (humans or animals)
Means of exit from the resvoir host are - Answer: Mouth nose throat ears eyes intestinal
tract urinary tract reproductive tract and open wounds
Means of transmission from one person to another - Answer: Water vapor from the lungs (
breathing coughing sneezing), Contaminated hand/equipment, contaminated food water
and insects.
Means of transmission into the host - Answer: Mouth nose throat ears eyes intestinal tract
reproductive tract, open unumose, break in the skin and mucous membranes
Succeptible host - Answer: On who is capable of being infected by the pathogen
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