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2. Blood-borne disease - Wikipedia

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   Follow standard precautions to help prevent the spread of blood-borne pathogens and other diseases whenever there is a risk of exposure to blood or other bodily fluids. Standard precautions include maintaining personal hygiene and using personal protective equipment (PPE), engineering controls, and work practice controls among others. [ 17 ]

3. Universal precautions - Wikipedia

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   Universal precautions are an infection control practice. Under universal precautions all patients were considered to be possible carriers of blood-borne pathogens. The guideline recommended wearing gloves when collecting or handling blood and body fluids contaminated with blood, wearing face shields when there was danger of blood splashing on mucous membranes ,and disposing of all needles and ...

4. Body substance isolation - Wikipedia

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   Body substance isolation is a practice of isolating all body substances (blood, urine, feces, tears, etc.) of individuals undergoing medical treatment, particularly emergency medical treatment of those who might be infected with illnesses such as HIV, or hepatitis so as to reduce as much as possible the chances of transmitting these illnesses. [1]

5. 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 ...

6. List of infectious diseases - Wikipedia

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   Infectious keratitis generally requires urgent antibacterial, antifungal, or antiviral therapy to eliminate the pathogen. No Kingella kingae: Kingella kingae infection No PRNP: Kuru: Autopsy None No Lassa virus: Lassa fever: Laboratory testing Supportive No Legionella pneumophila: Legionellosis (Legionnaires' disease) Urinary antigen test ...

7. Biosafety level - Wikipedia

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   A biosafety level (BSL), or pathogen/protection level, is a set of biocontainment precautions required to isolate dangerous biological agents in an enclosed laboratory facility. The levels of containment range from the lowest biosafety level 1 (BSL-1) to the highest at level 4 (BSL-4).