Reference no: EM133249072
Case: Certain factors are required for an infectious disease to spread. These factors, or links, make up the chain of infection. Break the chain and you break the infection process!
The spread of an infection within a community is described as a "chain," six connected steps that describe how a pathogen moves around. Infection control and contact tracing are meant to break the chain, preventing a pathogen from spreading. A concept we are much more familiar with since the emergence of COVID-19.
The spread of infection can be described as a chain with six links:
Infectious agent (pathogen)
Reservoir (the normal location of the pathogen)
Portal of exit from the reservoir (how it leaves the host)
Mode of transmission (how the infection moves around)
Portal of entry into a host (how it enters the host)
Susceptible host (the susceptible host)
For the first part of this assignment, I want you to identify each link in the chain of infection and how we can break the chain and prevent the infection from moving through the chain.
First, identify the link.
Secondly, give an example of what falls into that link.
Thirdly, identify how we can break the chain at this link and prevent it from moving to the link.
Example:
First link- Infectious Agent
Bacteria is a type of infectious agent. (now provide examples of different types of bacteria)
This link can be broken with prompt treatment to identify the organism and decontamination of the zone when we know we have an infectious patient...