A patient wants to know why he developed an infection after being cut on the leg with a piece of wood, but his friend who was also cut did not. How should the nurse explain this phenomenon?
1. "Maybe the wood that cut your friend wasn't dirty and infected."
2. "You must have an autoimmune disorder."
3. "The organism found you more susceptible to infection."
4. "Your friend will get an infection too. It will just develop later."
Correct Answer: 3
For a microorganism to cause infection, it must have disease-causing potential (virulence), be transmitted from its reservoir, and gain entry into a susceptible host. There is no evidence to indicate that the friend will develop an infection or that the wood was or was not contaminated. An autoimmune disorder would not cause an infection in this situation.
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