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What is used to test sterilization cycles? ✔️✔️spores
A dehydrated cell with a thick, shell like wall is a : ✔️✔️spore
What survives extreme heat, lack of water and exposure to many toxic chemicals and radiation?
✔️✔️Spores
Pathogen that causes tuberculosis: ✔️✔️Mycobacteria
Includes single cell yeasts: ✔️✔️Fungi
Disease not caused by virus: ✔️✔️CJD(Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease)
Difficult to kill by usual sterilization methods: ✔️✔️prions
Aerobic bacteria require: ✔️✔️Oxygen
Disease caused by Prions: ✔️✔️CJD
, Single-celled microorganisms are called ✔️✔️protozoa
Requires living host to multiply? ✔️✔️virus
an abnormal protein describes a ____ ✔️✔️prion
Gram-positive coccus example? ✔️✔️Staphylococcus aureus
____ can survive on hands for hours ✔️✔️VRE(Vancomycin-resistant enterococci)
healthcare infection is generally termed___ ✔️✔️nosocomial
Healthcare-aquired infections kill how many people annually? ✔️✔️90,000
The principal living reservoir of human disease comes from___ ✔️✔️human body
Gastrointestinal disease is usually a result of ___ ✔️✔️water contaminated by feces of humans
and other animals
the principal route of nosocomial infection is ____ ✔️✔️direct contact
an inanimate object involved in spreading infection is called ____ ✔️✔️a fomite