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Segment 7: Safety Practices
Medical Assisting
Infection Control: Ch. 14.1
Answer the following questions with complete and thoughtful responses.
1. How do nonpathogens differ from pathogens?
2. Identify the following shapes of bacteria.
a. Rod shapedb. Comma shapedc. Round or spherical arranged in a chaind. Spiral or corkscrewe. Round or spherical arranged in clusters3. Identify the following viruses:
a. Mosquito-borne flavivirusb. Virus that causes avian or bird fluc. Variant of the coronavirus that can lead to respiratory failure and deathd. Virus affecting monkeys, other primates and rodentse. Viruses that cause hemorrhagic feverf. Virus that causes AIDSg. Virus that affects the liver and can lead to destruction and scarring of liver cells-
4. What does federal law require of employers in regard to Hepatitis B vaccine?
5. List three things that microorganisms need to grow and reproduce.
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6. What is the difference between endogenous and exogenous disease?
7. Name three common examples of nosocomial infections. What do health care facilities do to prevent and
deal with these infections?
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8. Draw a diagram of the chain of infection. Next to each link write an action that will break the chain at that
part of the chain.
9. List four common aseptic techniques
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10. Define the following
a. Antisepsis
b. Disinfection
c. Sterilization