Viruses - correct answer ✔DNA or RNA in a protein coating
Protozoa - correct answer ✔Unicellular microorganisms that infect blood
, Helminthes - correct answer ✔Parasitic worms or flukes
Reservoir - correct answer ✔A place where pathogen grows
Portal of Exit - correct answer ✔An exit route for pathogens to leave its host
mode of transmission - correct answer ✔The manner in which an infectious
agent moves from one source to another
Contact - correct answer ✔most frequent source of HAIs
Indirect contact - correct answer ✔Contact with contaminated inanimate
objects
vector transmission - correct answer ✔occurs through bite
Droplet infection - correct answer ✔occurs when the droplets from an
infected person project into host
airborne transmission - correct answer ✔occurs when particles dispersed
enter host by inhalation
portal of entry - correct answer ✔place where pathogen enters body
Susceptible host - correct answer ✔a person becomes ill after pathogen
enters body and they cannot fight pathogen
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