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This document provides guidance on the application of non-pharmaceutical countermeasures to minimise the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in the population. Some of the measures proposed refer specifically to certain phases of the epidemic (containment or mitigation phases), and can
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Did you know that they are part of Antimicrobial Resistance?
Are you clear that we can all do something to avoid them?
Marcelo Barbato, intensive care physician and Director of the ICU at Hospital Maciel, the first public hospital in Uruguay with a long history in
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Standard precautions aim to protect both health workers and patients by reducing the risk of transmission of microorganisms from both recognized and unrecognized sources. They are the minimum standard of infection prevention and control practices th
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Infection preventions
Hygiene
Infection https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-024-02408-5
The Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities, 2008, presents evidence-
based recommendations on the preferred methods for cleaning, disinfection and sterilization of patient-
care medical devices and for cleaning and disinfecting the healthcare environment. This docume
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Accessed June 2014
Adapted by PATH from: EngenderHealth.
Infection Prevention: a reference booklet for health care providers
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New York: EngenderHealth; 2001. Available at: http://www.engenderhealth.org/files/pubs/qi/ip/ip-ref-eng.pdf
This document highlights the key aspects of safe health-care waste management in order to guide policy-makers, practitioners and facility managers to improve such services in health-care facilities. It is based on the comprehensive WHO handbook Safe management of wastes from health-care activities (
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Lessons from three African Countries.
Achieving Health for All, and in particular universal health coverage (UHC), will not happen without fully functioning basic water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in all health care facilities. Such services are needed to provide quality care, ensure ad
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Emerg Infect Dis. 2020 Jul [date cited]. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2607.200915
Infection control instructions call for use of alcohol-based hand rub solutions to inactivate severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. We determined the virucid
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The article "Malaria – MSD Manual Professional Edition" provides a comprehensive overview of malaria, an infection caused by Plasmodium species. It describes symptoms such as fever, chills, and anemia, explains diagnostic methods like parasite det
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Ce document intitulé « Diagnostic, traitement et prévention du paludisme : directive pour le personnel médical », publié par les Nations Unies en avril 2019, fournit des recommandations pratiques pour le personnel médical travaillant dans des zones à risque de paludisme. Il décrit les signe
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La page du site VIDAL intitulée « Paludisme : traitement – Recommandations » présente les recommandations actuelles pour la prise en charge du paludisme. Elle détaille les différents traitements selon le type de paludisme (P. falciparum ou non), la gravité de l'
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Infection and Drug Resistance 2020:13 4047–4060
Fact Sheet, May 2018.
Nipah virus (NiV) is a zoonotic virus (it is transmitted from animals to humans) and can also be transmitted through contaminated food or directly between people. In infected people, it causes a range of illnesses from asymptomatic (subclinical)
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HIV infection, due to the immunosuppressant that leads, nowadays constitutes an aggravating factor of endemic tuberculosis. Tuberculosis remains a huge burden to human health, even in the early 21st century. The situation is deteriorating in many co
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Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol., 12 April 2021 Sec. Parasite and Host
Volume 11 - 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2021.656938
Over the past several decades, malaria/HIV-1 co-infection has become a significant global public health problem in
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Decoding Infection and Transmission Volume 2, 2024, 100030
Trachoma is an eye infection affecting both eyes. It is the world’s leading cause of infectious blindness. A bacterium called Chlamydia trachomatis causes trachoma. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), trachoma has caused the visual i
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Health care-associated infection (HCAI) places a serious disease burden and has a significant economic impact on patients and health-care systems throughout the world. Yet good hand hygiene, the simple task of cleaning hands at the right times an
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