MC3

• Medical Asepsis


  The reduction of the number of disease-causing agents and their spread
• Medical Asepsis


  • Techniques used in the process are called clean techniques
• Surgical Asepsis


  The complete elimination of the disease-causing agents and their spores from the surface of an object
• Surgical Asepsis


  • Sterile techniques are used
• Factors that influence effectiveness of antimicrobial treatment

  • Number of Microbes
  • Environmental influence
  • Time of exposure
  • Microbial characteristics
• Microbial Ecology


  The study of numerous interrelationship between microorganisms and the world around them
• Types of symbiosis

  • Neutralism
  • Commensalism
  • Mutualism
  • Parasitism
  • Synergism
• Microbiota "Normal Flora"


  Microbial Antagonism - microbes vs. microbes
• Opportunistic Pathogen


  Organisms that hanging around, waiting for the opportunity to cause infection
• Epidemiology


  A type of study which analyze the different factors and mechanisms which involves in the spread of different disease in human population or animal or plant
• JOHN SNOW- EPIDEMIC OF CHOLERA
• Incidence of Disease


  The number of newly infected patients occurs within a set of the population during a specific time