Cycle of infections quiz

Blood-borne pathogens of concern to health care workers are:

HIV and hepatitis B and C

The most common occupational exposure to blood-borne pathogens is:

Needlestick injury

Health care workers can protect themselves from exposure to airborne pathogens by:

Wearing special filter masks

Which of the following pathogens is classified as airborne?

Tuberculosis

In terms of the cycle of infection, any environment in which a pathogen can flourish is termed a:

Reservoir

What population is at the greatest risk as a susceptible host?

Immunocompromised patients

An inanimate object that has been contaminated by an infectious agent is called a:

Fomite

Which of the following might be an exit portal for tuberculosis?

A cough or sneeze

Which of the following is the mode of transmission for E. coli bacteria?

Contact

You are employed as a radiographer in a large medical facility. You wake up with fever and a nasty cough. You are scheduled to work trauma, and you know one of your co-workers is on maternity leave and another is away at a CE conference. What should you do?

Call in sick to avoid transmitting your illness to co-workers and patients