Infection Prevention and Control in Healthcare Settings

Foreword

Preface

1 The Chain of Infection and Main Groups of Micro-organisms Causing Infection

2 Applying the Principles of Evidence-based Practice to Infection Prevention and Control

3 Immunity: Response of the Body to Infection

4 The Microbiology Laboratory

5 Antimicrobial Drugs

6 Policies and Protocols for Infection Prevention and Control

7 Healthcare-associated Infection

8 Urinary Tract Infection

9 Wound Infections

10 Respiratory Infections

11 Infections Associated with Intravascular Devices

12 Gastrointestinal Infections

13 Infection from Blood and Body Fluids

14 Sexually Transmitted Infections

15 Epidemiology and the Role of Public Health in the Prevention and Control of Infectious Disease

Index

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• Enfermagem

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