Exam 3: Laboratory Role in Infection Control

To keep abreast of all infections that occur in the hospital,infection control practitioners set up surveillance programs.These surveillance programs look at this parameter to determine if there are more or fewer infections in a given period.

In acute care hospitals,transmission of pathogens as a result of treatment occur as all the following "classifications" of infections EXCEPT:

The role of the microbiology laboratory is to perform cultures and provide culture results to health care providers.The microbiology laboratory also has the responsibility to:

Prisoners or people housed in behavioral health facilities are more likely to contract infections with pathogens from their intimate contact with blood and body fluids.A likely pathogen may be:

The hospital infection control committee will expect reports from the laboratory that deal with all the following EXCEPT:

Laboratory technologists must not only keep themselves educated in their contribution to the infection control team,they must keep:

An index case is:

Organisms that represent public health concerns can be recovered from patients in an acute care hospital.All of the following isolates are considered significant or major public health concerns that are reportable to public health jurisdictions to follow up as a potential outbreak EXCEPT:

This ongoing process helps public health and health care officials recognize outbreaks,upward trends of infections,and positive effects of interventions.

An example of an emerging disease is:

What types of activities have led to the emergence of the microbiology laboratory as the forefront in keeping Americans safe?

Nosocomial infections are:

Waterborne illnesses that may be associated with contaminated drinking water or recreation water include all the following EXCEPT:

This program involves a close watch of only specific,high-risk,high-volume procedures for nosocomial infections.

In the United States,15 to 20 outbreaks annually owing to waterborne pathogens cause this illness and affect several thousand people.

What is pulsed-field gel electrophoresis?

When reviewing surgical site infections,the infection control practitioner must determine if the patient's infection is nosocomial by considering all the following EXCEPT:

This is practiced throughout the hospital and mandates safety for all personnel when handling blood and body fluids.

Patients in both extended care facilities and home care settings are frequently immunosuppressed by disease or therapy and often need intravascular or other device-related care.The microbes identified in these patients are often opportunistic pathogens and include all the following EXCEPT:

The counties surrounding yours are seeing an increase in the number of whooping cough cases.This is important for the microbiology laboratory because: