Processing of Patient Specimens and Handling of Actively Growing Cultures

question 53

Multiple Choice

Processing of patient specimens and handling of actively growing cultures of microorganisms puts an employee at risk of potential contact with the infectious agent through all the following routes except:

• A)mucous membranes.
• B)blood splashed onto intact skin.
• C)inhalation of aerosols.
• D)accidental ingestion.

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Definitions:

Participants

Individuals who have volunteered to be in a research project, or in Hymes’s theory, the people present in a speech situation and their roles and relationships.

Control Groups

Experimental groups not exposed to any experimental variable.

Experimental Variable(s)

Factors in an experiment that are manipulated or changed by the researcher to investigate their effect on the dependent variable.

Maturation

In experimental design, the problem of individuals changing over time, most obviously by getting older.