5th Period Infection Control Quiz

What is a pathogen?

• genetic material that is surrounded by a protective coat and that can only reproduce inside a host cell; can only be seen under a microscope.

• not disease causing.

• disease or infection causing organism

• a small living organism that is not visible to the named eye; found everywhere in the environment

What is the correct definition for host?

• disease causing

• The organism from which a microorganism takes nourishment.

• to decay, break down.

• tiny organism, such as fungi, protists, or bacteria, that can only be seen under a microscope.

What is the fifth link? (chain of infection)

• The Route(mode) of transmission

• The Reservoir Host

• The Portal of Entry

• The Portal of Exit

What are some of the ways a pathogen can be entered? (the portal of entry)

• inhalation

• ingestion

• sexual contact

• all of the above

Who is the least likely to become infected by a pathogen?

• 35 year old woman with Breast Cancer

• Newborn in a hospital

• 16 year old student athlete

• 87 year old nursing home resident with emphysema

How many links are in the chain of infection?

• 6

• 5

• 7

• 4

How can you break the chain of infection?

• Pathogen Identification

• Asepsis & Hygiene

• Control portal of exit

• all of the above

What is a virus?

• Smallest microorganism, visible only with an electron microscope. Resistant to many disinfectants.

• organisms obtaining nourishment from other organisms they are living in or on.

• poisonous substance

• capable of being affected or infected

What is the reservoir host?

• route of escape of the pathogen from the reservoir

• the organism that accepts the pathogen

• method by which the pathogen gets from the reservoir to the new host

• the organism in which the infectious microbes reside

way the disease enters the organism

• portal of entry

• portal of exit

• the route

• parasite