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  • Chapter 56 - Infection Control

  • from Section 5 - Patient Management
  • Tim Wreghitt, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Goura Kudesia, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
  • Book:
    Clinical and Diagnostic Virology
    Published online:
    11 April 2024
    Print publication:
    18 April 2024, pp 282-285

  • Summary

    This chapter deals with how infection control procedures can be used to minimise the spread of viral infections transmitted via the respiratory, gastrointestinal, blood-borne, sexual, vertical and vector-borne routes. It also details infection control strategies in hospitals and in the community via universal precautions, respiratory precautions, enteric precautions and those for highly dangerous pathogens. Post-exposure prophylaxis and management of outbreaks is also discussed along with a list of notifiable infections.