Practices designed to interrupt the spread of certain highly transmissible diseases are
A. standard precautions.
B. transmission-based precautions.
C. negative-pressure precautions.
D. universal precautions.
Answer: B
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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