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2. Infection prevention and control - Wikipedia

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   Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology is primarily composed of infection prevention and control professionals with nursing or medical technology backgrounds; The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America is more heavily weighted towards practitioners who are physicians or doctoral-level epidemiologists.

3. Transmission-based precautions - Wikipedia

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   Transmission-based precautions are infection-control precautions in health care, in addition to the so-called "standard precautions". They are the latest routine infection prevention and control practices applied for patients who are known or suspected to be infected or colonized with infectious agents, including certain epidemiologically important pathogens, which require additional control ...

4. Non-pharmaceutical intervention (epidemiology) - Wikipedia

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   In addition to infection control, contact tracing serves as a means to identify high-risk and medically vulnerable populations who might be exposed to infection and facilitate appropriate medical care. [34] In doing so, public health officials utilize contact tracing to conduct disease surveillance and prevent outbreaks. [35]

5. American Journal of Infection Control - Wikipedia

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   The American Journal of Infection Control is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier on behalf of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The journal publishes articles describing original research on the epidemiology, infection control, and infectious diseases.

6. Infectious diseases (medical specialty) - Wikipedia

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   When diagnosing, a medical professional must first determine if a patient has an infectious disease or another condition not caused by infection but exhibits similar symptoms. Once the illness is confirmed to be caused by an infection, Infectious diseases specialists employ a variety of diagnostic tests to help identify the pathogen that is ...

7. Hygiene - Wikipedia

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   Hygiene in a variety of settings plays an important role in preventing the spread of infectious diseases. [9] It includes procedures like hand hygiene, respiratory hygiene, food and water hygiene, general home hygiene (hygiene of environmental sites and surfaces), care of domestic animals, and home health care (the care of those who are at ...

8. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology - Wikipedia

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   Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by Cambridge University Press.It publishes research on control and evaluation of the transmission of pathogens in healthcare institutions and on the use of epidemiological principles and methods to evaluate and improve the delivery of care, including infection control practices, surveillance, cost-benefit ...

9. Eradication of infectious diseases - Wikipedia

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   [133] The eradication and control efforts have been progressing well, with the number of reported cases dropping below 10,000 in 2009 for the first time; with only 992 cases reported in 2019 and 565 cases in 2020. [134] [135] The vast majority of the 565 cases in 2020 (over 60%) were recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [135]