Sterilisation - The process of rendering objects free of all living organisms, Disinfection - The process of killing or removing pathogens, Asepsis - The absence of micro-organisms, Antisepsis - The prevention of infection by destroying or arresting the growth of pathogens, Attenuated - Live vaccine that contains a weakened strain of the pathogen, Inactivated - Killed vaccine that will stimulate a weaker response, Subunit - A vaccine that contains purified parts of pathogens, Zoonotic disease - A disease or infection that is naturally transmissible from animals to humans & vice-versa , Notifiable disease - A disease that must be reported to public health authorities or government agencies, Conjugation - A form of bacterial mating, Fomite - Inanimate object or material which are likely to carry infection, Vector - An organism that does not cause disease but spreads infection to another host, Parasite - An organism living on/in a host to obtain food or shelter, Trichodectes Canis - Chewing lice, Cestodes - Tapeworm, Colonisation - The presence & multiplication of a micro-organism in or on a host,

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