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| occupational safety and health administration |
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| Clinical Laboratory improvement amendments |
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| Physicians office laboratory |
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| disease producing microorganims |
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| unicellular microorganisms that vary in morphology |
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| smallest living microorganism, reproduce only within host |
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| single-celled microorganisms that attach to other organisms |
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| simple parasitic plants that depend on other life forms; reproduce by budding |
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| organisms that depend on another organism for nourishment |
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| depends completely on host for survival |
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| can live apart from host for a period of time |
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| provide a balance and destroy pathogens |
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| scrubbing and washing to remove foreign materials |
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| process by which disease producing microorganisms ate killed by placing items in solutions |
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| used to clean pt skin before injections or surgical procedures |
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| use of chemicals to kill microorganisms |
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| takes 8 hours, at temp of 350 |
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| 15 lbs of steam under pressure at 250; only method to kill spores |
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