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    INFECTION

    CONTROL
    Ms. Poonam Khanapurkar.
    Msc. Nursing
    Introduction

     Infection is injurious contamination of body or parts of


    the body by bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa and
    rickettsia or by the toxin that they may produce. The
    infection may be local or generalized and spread
    throughout the body.
     When the living microorganisms entre and attack our
    bodies causing sickness, it is called infection.
     most organism can live inside a man or animal or they
    go from one to another, spreading disease
    Definition

     The entry and multiplication of an infectious agent into


    the body.
     It is the invasion of susceptible host by pathogen or
    microorganisms resulting in disease.
     Infectious agent may be bacteria, viruses, fungi,
    spirochete, or other agent, capable of producing infection
    under favorable circumstances of host and environment
    Nature of infection
     Infection is the invasion of the host by a pathogen. Disease
    results if the invading pathogen alter normal body
    functions.
     Symptoms: are the subjective characteristics of the disease
    felt only by the patient.
     Eg. Headache, itching, Nausea, pain
     Signs: Are objective manifestation manifestations of
    disease observed or measured by others.
     Eg. Redness of the skin, macules, fever, cold, cough
    Syndrome: It is a group of signs and symptoms characterized
    by a disease or abnormal condition
     Pathogenicity: ability of microorganism to cause
    disease
     Virulence: Degree of pathogenicity- an ability of an
    organism to infect the host and cause a disease.
    Types of Infection
     Endogenous:
     Exogenous
    Endogenous
     These infections are contracted from host himself from the
    normal flora
     Many area of the body having normal commercial flora
     They have many functions.
     They provides barrier to the infection by competing for
    nutrition's with pathogens
     Some provide vitamins for host.
     Some provide colicins to act against pathogens.
     Generally the do not causing any infection
     Streptococcus mitis is the normal flora of the mouth. It
    produce infection in previously damaged heart valves through
    bloodstream after tooth extraction
    Exogenous

     Patient suffering from these infections can


    transmit infection to another function
     These derived from Men, animals, soil.
     Man gets infection from patient suffering
    from disease
     Reservoir

     It is the place where an infectious agent resides and repro-


    duces in such a manner that it can be transmitted. Infectious
    agents can lives on human feces, insects, soil, water or
    animals.
    Portal of Exit

     Microorganisms can exit through a variety of sites


    such as skin and mucous membrane, respiratory
    tract, urinary tract, gastrointestinal tract,
    reproductive tract and blood.
    Modes of Transmission

     Common modes of transmission of microorganisms from reservoir to the


    susceptible host are:
    1. Contact transmission: It is the most common form of transmitting disease.
    The transfer of disease causing agent from an infected person to a host by direct
    or in- direct contact.
     Direct contact: It occurs when disease causing
    microorganisms pass from infected person to the healthy
    person via direct physical contact with blood or body
    fluids. Example of direct contact are-touching, sexual
    contact or contact with body lesions.
     b. Indirect contact: When infected person spreads the disease
    through fomites or secretions to healthy

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