NCM 103 RLE EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST 2025/2026
The absence of microorganisms - Answers Asepsis
Refers to the absence of septic matter, freedom from infection or infectious matter also
includes general cleanliness - Answers Asepsis
Infection control practice used to prevent transmission of pathogens - Answers aseptic
technique
Practicees to reduce number of growth, spread of organisms - Answers Medical asepsis
TRUE OR FALSE. the most common cause of nosocomial infrctions is contaminated in the
hands of the (patient) - Answers False. Hands of health care providers
Medical asepsis is called clean technique while Surgical asepsis is referred to as - Answers
Sterile technique
Practices that elimate all microorganisms and spores drom an object or area - Answers Surgial
asepsis
READ. chief difference of medical vs. surgical asepsis - Answers A-D *read*
A state caused by the entry and multiplication of oathogenic microorganism within the body -
Answers Infection
What are the types of microorganisms - Answers bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites
Most common cause of infection - Answers Bacteria
Microorganisms consistening orimarily of nuckeic acid and therefore must enter in living cell to
reproduce - Answers Viruses
Sacrophytic (obtains food by absorbung dissolved organic matter) - Answers Fungi or fungus
Parasites - Answers Organism that loves in or on other organism
Infection might transmitted directly or indirectly YES OR NO - Answers Yes
Refers to an infectious agent that is transferred from a reservoir to a susceptible host by direct
contact of droplet spread. Person to person - Answers Direct transmission
Refers to vector, vehicle, airborne transmission such as inanimate objects as bed linens. From
host to the carrier to the person - Answers Indirect transmission
Types of indirect transmission - Answers vehicles, vectors, airborne
Vectors - Answers Rats, mosquitoes, flies, insects
, Vehicles - Answers Substance that serves as immediate means of transport
Airborne - Answers Droplet or dust transmission of disease by saliva o mucus also called as
droplet infection
A condition wherein there is a detectable alteration in normal tissue function - Answers Disease
Agensts like microorganisms that cause infection - Answers Infectious agent
Microorganism found in certain parts of the body - Answers Resident flora - can be seen in the
intestine
Fever - Answers Symptoms of disease
asymptomatic or subclinical - Answers Produces no clincal evidence of disease
Virulence - Answers ability of a microorganism to produce disease
Ability to reproduce disease - Answers Pathogenicity
Condition when an infectious agent can be transmitted to an individyak by direct or indirect
contact through a vector or vehicle or as an airborne infection - Answers Communicable disease
Microorganism that causes disease - Answers pathogen
Infectious agents that causes disease only in susceptible (at risk) individual - Answers
Opportunistic pathogens
Sepsis - Answers State of infection. Toxic condition resulting from the spread of bacteria of
their products from a focus of infection
When microorganism is present in the blood and leads to septicemia - Answers Bacterimia
Process by which strains of microorganism become resident flora. Microorganism may grow
and multiply but will not cause disease. - Answers Colonization
chain of infection - Answers infectious agent, reservoir, portal of exit, mode of transmission,
portal of entry, susceptible host
infectious agent - Answers a pathogen, such as a bacterium or virus that can cause a disease
Reservoir or source - Answers Place where conditions are ripe for replication such as water
people animals soil dirty surfaces
Portal of exit from reservoir - Answers any body opening on an infected person that allows
pathogens to leave also escale route of organism
vehicle transmission - Answers By means of organisms are carried about
The absence of microorganisms - Answers Asepsis
Refers to the absence of septic matter, freedom from infection or infectious matter also
includes general cleanliness - Answers Asepsis
Infection control practice used to prevent transmission of pathogens - Answers aseptic
technique
Practicees to reduce number of growth, spread of organisms - Answers Medical asepsis
TRUE OR FALSE. the most common cause of nosocomial infrctions is contaminated in the
hands of the (patient) - Answers False. Hands of health care providers
Medical asepsis is called clean technique while Surgical asepsis is referred to as - Answers
Sterile technique
Practices that elimate all microorganisms and spores drom an object or area - Answers Surgial
asepsis
READ. chief difference of medical vs. surgical asepsis - Answers A-D *read*
A state caused by the entry and multiplication of oathogenic microorganism within the body -
Answers Infection
What are the types of microorganisms - Answers bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites
Most common cause of infection - Answers Bacteria
Microorganisms consistening orimarily of nuckeic acid and therefore must enter in living cell to
reproduce - Answers Viruses
Sacrophytic (obtains food by absorbung dissolved organic matter) - Answers Fungi or fungus
Parasites - Answers Organism that loves in or on other organism
Infection might transmitted directly or indirectly YES OR NO - Answers Yes
Refers to an infectious agent that is transferred from a reservoir to a susceptible host by direct
contact of droplet spread. Person to person - Answers Direct transmission
Refers to vector, vehicle, airborne transmission such as inanimate objects as bed linens. From
host to the carrier to the person - Answers Indirect transmission
Types of indirect transmission - Answers vehicles, vectors, airborne
Vectors - Answers Rats, mosquitoes, flies, insects
, Vehicles - Answers Substance that serves as immediate means of transport
Airborne - Answers Droplet or dust transmission of disease by saliva o mucus also called as
droplet infection
A condition wherein there is a detectable alteration in normal tissue function - Answers Disease
Agensts like microorganisms that cause infection - Answers Infectious agent
Microorganism found in certain parts of the body - Answers Resident flora - can be seen in the
intestine
Fever - Answers Symptoms of disease
asymptomatic or subclinical - Answers Produces no clincal evidence of disease
Virulence - Answers ability of a microorganism to produce disease
Ability to reproduce disease - Answers Pathogenicity
Condition when an infectious agent can be transmitted to an individyak by direct or indirect
contact through a vector or vehicle or as an airborne infection - Answers Communicable disease
Microorganism that causes disease - Answers pathogen
Infectious agents that causes disease only in susceptible (at risk) individual - Answers
Opportunistic pathogens
Sepsis - Answers State of infection. Toxic condition resulting from the spread of bacteria of
their products from a focus of infection
When microorganism is present in the blood and leads to septicemia - Answers Bacterimia
Process by which strains of microorganism become resident flora. Microorganism may grow
and multiply but will not cause disease. - Answers Colonization
chain of infection - Answers infectious agent, reservoir, portal of exit, mode of transmission,
portal of entry, susceptible host
infectious agent - Answers a pathogen, such as a bacterium or virus that can cause a disease
Reservoir or source - Answers Place where conditions are ripe for replication such as water
people animals soil dirty surfaces
Portal of exit from reservoir - Answers any body opening on an infected person that allows
pathogens to leave also escale route of organism
vehicle transmission - Answers By means of organisms are carried about
