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medical asepsis practices designed to reduce the number and transfer of pathogens; synonym for clean technique surgical asepsis techniques used to destroy all pathogenic organisms, also called sterile technique infectious agent a pathogen, such as a bacterium or virus that can cause a disease reservoir a source of the pathogen in the environment portal of exit any body opening on an infected person that allows pathogens to leave mode of transmission a way that the causative agent can be transmitted to another reservoir or host where it can live susceptible host a person likely to get an infection or disease, usually because body defenses are weak localized infection an infection that is limited to a specific location in the body and has local symptoms systemic infection