COMMUNICABLE DISEASE NURSING

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Infection  Implantation and success replication of an organism in the tissue of the host resulting to signs and symptoms as well as immunologic response.  Carrier  An individual who harbo... rs the organism and is capable of transmitting it to a susceptible host without showing manifestations of the disease.  Communicable Disease  It is an illness caused by an infectious agent or its toxic products that are transmitted directly or indirectly to a well person through an agency, and a vector or an inanimate object.  Contact  It is any person or animal who is in close association with an infected person, animal or freshly soiled materials.  Contagious Disease  It is a term given to a disease that is easily transmitted from one person to another through direct or indirect means.  Disinfection  It is the destruction of pathogenic microorganism on inanimate objects by directly applying physical or chemical means.  Concurrent  it is a method of disinfection done immediately after the infected individual discharges infectious material/secretions.  Method of disinfection when the patient is still the source of infection.  Terminal  It is applied when the patient is no longer the source of infection  This is done after patient is discharged from the hospital to prepare the room for the next patient.  Habitat  It is a place where an organism lives or where an organism is usually found.  Host  It is a person, animal or plant on which a parasite depends for its survival.  Infectious Disease  It is transmitted not only by ordinary contact but requires direct inoculation of the organism through a break on the skin or mucous membrane.  Isolation  it is the separation from other persons of an individual suffering from a communicable disease during the period of communicability.  Quarantine  It is the limitation of freedom of movement of persons or animals which have been exposed to communicable disease/s for a period of time equivalent to the longest incubation period of that disease.  Reservoir  It is composed of one of more species of animal or plant in which an infectious [Show More]

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