Question

In the given case, Monica Stokes is a volunteer at a local extended care facility. She pushes a cart with books around to the rooms of patients to ask if they want to read any library book. When Monica enters the room of Mr. Haskin, the nurse asks her to take the dirty linen and put them in the linen basket. She is new and confused about whether it was a part of duty. So, she picks up the dirty linens from the floor and put them in the linen basket. She notices a few stains on her clothes, so she washed them off with cold water to remove those statins and then returns back to her duty.

Question? are all the links present in the chain of infection?

Answer 1

The chain of infection has six modes to transmit an infection it can be broken at all stages by appropriate intervention

• Causative agent or infectious agent: the microorganisms responsible for causing the infection.Dirty linens are always a place where infectious agents can be found but the causative agent is not mentioned
• Reservoir is where the microorganisms resides ,here the reservoir is the linen
• The portal of exit is the direct exposure to the environment
• The mode of transmission is direct contact of the linen
• The portal of entry into the staffs body is by contaminated linen by respiration ora cavity eye contact,etc.
• The susceptible host is who handles the linen

Here all the links are present to cause the infection through a chain