Flashcards Infectious Disease Transmission Types: Airborne, Droplet, Contact, Vehicle, and Vector

A phlebotomist enters the room of a patient with active tuberculosis and inhales infectious particles suspended in the air. How would you categorize this type of transmission: airborne, droplet, contact, vehicle, or vector?

Airborne

A patient with influenza coughs directly toward the phlebotomist while their blood is being collected. How would you categorize this type of transmission: airborne, droplet, contact, vehicle, or vector?

Droplet

A phlebotomist touches a patient's draining MRSA wound and then touches another surface without removing their contaminated gloves. How would you categorize this type of transmission: airborne, droplet, contact, vehicle, or vector?

Contact

A phlebotomist accidentally sticks themselves with a used needle from a patient infected with hepatitis B. How would you categorize this type of transmission: airborne, droplet, contact, vehicle, or vector?

Vehicle

A mosquito carrying West Nile virus bites a laboratory employee while they are outside on break. How would you categorize this type of transmission: airborne, droplet, contact, vehicle, or vector?

Vector

A patient with chickenpox has infectious particles that remain suspended in the air of the patient's room. How would you categorize this type of transmission: airborne, droplet, contact, vehicle, or vector?

Airborne

A patient with pertussis coughs while the phlebotomist is standing close to the patient preparing to draw blood. How would you categorize this type of transmission: airborne, droplet, contact, vehicle, or vector?

Droplet

A phlebotomist touches a contaminated bedrail and then touches their face before performing hand hygiene. How would you categorize this type of transmission: airborne, droplet, contact, vehicle, or vector?

Contact

HIV-infected blood splashes into a phlebotomist's eye while handling an improperly capped blood specimen. How would you categorize this type of transmission: airborne, droplet, contact, vehicle, or vector?

Vehicle

A tick attaches to a healthcare worker and transmits the organism responsible for Lyme disease. How would you categorize this type of transmission: airborne, droplet, contact, vehicle, or vector?

Vector

A phlebotomist enters the room of a patient with measles and breathes in infectious particles lingering in the air. How would you categorize this type of transmission: airborne, droplet, contact, vehicle, or vector?

Airborne

A patient with meningococcal meningitis sneezes while a phlebotomist is collecting a blood culture at the bedside. How would you categorize this type of transmission: airborne, droplet, contact, vehicle, or vector?

Droplet

A phlebotomist helps reposition a patient with a contagious skin infection and becomes contaminated through direct skin-to-skin exposure. How would you categorize this type of transmission: airborne, droplet, contact, vehicle, or vector?

Contact

A phlebotomist gets a patient's hepatitis C-positive blood into an open cut on their hand. How would you categorize this type of transmission: airborne, droplet, contact, vehicle, or vector?

Vehicle

A mosquito transmits malaria to a person through its bite. How would you categorize this type of transmission: airborne, droplet, contact, vehicle, or vector?

Vector

A phlebotomist enters the room of a patient with pulmonary tuberculosis without the appropriate respiratory protection. How would you categorize this type of transmission: airborne, droplet, contact, vehicle, or vector?

Airborne

A patient with influenza sneezes while the phlebotomist is standing within a few feet of the patient. How would you categorize this type of transmission: airborne, droplet, contact, vehicle, or vector?

Droplet

A phlebotomist removes a patient's bandage with an ungloved hand and comes into contact with drainage containing infectious organisms. How would you categorize this type of transmission: airborne, droplet, contact, vehicle, or vector?

Contact

Several patients develop an infection after receiving medication from the same contaminated multidose vial. How would you categorize this type of transmission: airborne, droplet, contact, vehicle, or vector?

Vehicle

A patient develops Rocky Mountain spotted fever after being bitten by an infected tick. How would you categorize this type of transmission: airborne, droplet, contact, vehicle, or vector?

Vector