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Test 4 PN 103 With Complete Solutions
Direct contact ANS✔✔ (kissing, sex, oral secretions, body lesions)
Indirect contact ANS✔✔ (contaminated surface called fomites such as door knobs, handles, handrails, tables, chairs,
bathroom surfaces, dishes, pens, pencils, toys)
Droplet ANS✔✔ cough, sneeze, talk; large and quickly settle out of the air - face masks and goggles
Airborne ANS✔✔ droplet nuclei or dust particles remain suspended for longer periods of time (TB, Chickenpox, Measles)
Fecal-oral ANS✔✔ ingest contaminant, multiply in GI tract, shed in feces (food storage, cooking, handwashing, sewage,
surfaces)
Vector-borne ANS✔✔ animals; examples: flies, mites, fleas, mosquito thru bite or feces.
Tuberculosis ANS✔✔ Infectious disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
TB is a leading killer of ANS✔✔ people who are HIV infected.
TB exposure ANS✔✔ droplet transmitted by cough or sneeze and inhaled
TB incubation ANS✔✔ from infection to symptoms (positive skin reaction) is 2 to 12 weeks
TB Quarantine/isolation ANS✔✔ AFB isolation until 3 consecutive negative sputum smears collected in 8 to 24 hour
interval; receive treatment; demonstrate clinical improvement
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Pepper
TB Latent Disease ANS✔✔ may remain inactive for decades
TB Active Disease ANS✔✔ have signs and symptoms
Chronic TB ANS✔✔ Inhalation of tubercle bacillus (Mycobacterium tuberculosis)
Macrophages ANS✔✔ engulf bacterium and wall off forming tubercles.
Diagnosing Tb 1 ANS✔✔ Mantoux tuberculin skin test (2-3 days waiting period)
Diagnosing Tb 2 ANS✔✔ QuantiFERON-TB Gold Test (greater specificity; 24 hour waiting period);
"gold standard"; tests latent disease
Diagnosing Tb 3 ANS✔✔ Chest x-ray film
Acid-fast bacilli smear 3 of sputum
Drug resistant TB ANS✔✔ All cases must be reported to:
Local health department
OSHA
Data to be Collected ANS✔✔ Close contact with someone with the disease
Poorly ventilated, crowded living quarters
Recent travel to areas with high TB incidence
Family members of those with TB should be screened
Signs and Symptoms of Tuberculosis ANS✔✔ Fever
Weight loss; weakness
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