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1. Full Text HIV in the health care workplace
by Miike, Lawrence H and Ostrowsky, Julia and United States. Congress.Office of Technology Assessment
1991, Background paper, ISBN 9780160359910, Volume 7.
Medical personnel | HIV infections | transmission | United States | Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient | prevention & control | Health risk assessment | Risk factors
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2. Full Text 2014 MERS-CoV Outbreak in Jeddah — A Link to Health Care Facilities
by Oboho, Ikwo K and Tomczyk, Sara M and Al-Asmari, Ahmad M and Banjar, Ayman A and Al-Mugti, Hani and Aloraini, Muhannad S and Alkhaldi, Khulud Z and Almohammadi, Emad L and Alraddadi, Basem M and Gerber, Susan I and Swerdlow, David L and Watson, John T and Madani, Tariq A
The New England Journal of Medicine, ISSN 0028-4793, 02/2015, Volume 372, Issue 9, pp. 846 - 854
A substantial increase in Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infections in Saudi Arabia in 2014 raised concern about further spread of the... 
MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS | SAUDI-ARABIA | Humans | Middle Aged | Infection Control | Male | Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient | Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus | Coronavirus Infections - transmission | Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology | Disease Outbreaks | Adult | Female | Aged | Saudi Arabia - epidemiology | Cross Infection - epidemiology | Saudi Arabia | Symptomatology | Analysis | Medical care | Management | Patients | Health aspects | Health facilities | Disease transmission | Respiratory diseases | Outbreaks | Infections | Personnel | Epidemiology | Disease control | Zoonoses
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3. Full Text Interventions to improve hand hygiene compliance in patient care
by Gould, Dinah J and Moralejo, Donna and Drey, Nicholas and Chudleigh, Jane H and Taljaard, Monica
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, ISSN 1469-493X, 09/2017, Volume 2017, Issue 9, p. CD005186
Background Health care-associated infection is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Hand hygiene is regarded as an effective preventive measure. This is... 
MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | ALCOHOL-BASED HANDRUB | SUSTAINED IMPROVEMENT | INFECTION-CONTROL INTERVENTIONS | POINT-PREVALENCE SURVEY | HOSPITAL-WIDE | PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK | HANDWASHING PRACTICES | RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS-AUREUS | INTERRUPTED TIME-SERIES | NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS | Hand Disinfection - standards | Interrupted Time Series Analysis | Cross Infection - prevention & control | Health Personnel | Humans | Clostridium difficile | Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient - prevention & control | Staphylococcal Infections - prevention & control | Clostridium Infections - prevention & control | Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus | Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
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4. Manual of infection prevention and control
by Damani, N. N. (Nizam N.)
2012, 3rd ed., ISBN 019969835X, cm.
"It has been estimated that in developed countries up to 10% of hospitalized patients develop infections every year. Not only is there a substantial cost to... 
Prevention | Disinfection | Nosocomial infections | Hospital buildings | MEDICAL / Infectious Diseases | Clinical & internal medicine | public health and epidemiology | Infection | Quality of Care | Healthcare Associated Infections | Infection Control | Patient Safety | Healthcare Systems | Cost | Hospitalized Patients
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5. Full Text Evidence-based model for hand transmission during patient care and the role of improved practices
by Pittet, Didier and Allegranzi, Benedetta and Sax, Hugo and Dharan, Sasi and Pessoa-Silva, Carmem Lúcia and Donaldson, Liam and Boyce, John M and WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge, World Alliance for Patient Safety
The Lancet Infectious Diseases, ISSN 1473-3099, 2006, Volume 6, Issue 10, pp. 641 - 652
Hand cleansing is the primary action to reduce health-care-associated infection and cross-transmission of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens. Patient-to-patient... 
INFECTIOUS DISEASES | GRAM-NEGATIVE BACILLI | SKIN FLORA | MICROBIAL COLONIZATION | CHILDHOOD DIARRHEA | CONTACT TRANSMISSION | MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY | RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS-AUREUS | INFECTION-CONTROL MEASURES | NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS | KLEBSIELLA-PNEUMONIAE | Fomites - microbiology | Skin - microbiology | Education | Hand Disinfection | Health Personnel - education | Models, Biological | Humans | Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient - prevention & control | Hand - microbiology | Microbial Viability | Care and treatment | Disease transmission | Analysis | Cross infection | Nosocomial infections | Evidence-based medicine | Patients
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6. Infection control
: a psychosocial approach to changing practice
2009, ISBN 1857756126, xvi, 264
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7. Full Text Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infections in Health Care Workers
by Memish, Ziad A and Zumla, Alimuddin I and Assiri, Abdullah
The New England Journal of Medicine, ISSN 0028-4793, 08/2013, Volume 369, Issue 9, pp. 884 - 886
MERS coronavirus has recently emerged as a pathogen causing severe infection in humans. In a report from Saudi Arabia, mild infection in health care workers... 
MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | Humans | Middle Aged | Nursing Staff, Hospital | Family Health | Coronavirus Infections - transmission | Middle East | Saudi Arabia | Respiratory Tract Infections - transmission | Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient - prevention & control | Adult | Female | Respiratory Tract Infections - virology | Coronavirus - isolation & purification | Medical personnel | Health care | Infections | Patients | Respiratory diseases
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8. Basic infection control for health care providers
by Kennamer, Mike
2007, 2nd ed., ISBN 141801978X, xx, 220
Medical personnel | Health facilities | Occupational Exposure | Sanitation | Infection Control | Cross Infection | prevention & control | Prevention | Health Personnel | Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient | Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional | prevention and control | Nosocomial infections | Health and hygiene
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9. Full Text Health-care workers: source, vector, or victim of MRSA?
by Albrich, Werner C, MD and Harbarth, Stephan, Dr
Lancet Infectious Diseases, The, ISSN 1473-3099, 2008, Volume 8, Issue 5, pp. 289 - 301
Summary There is ongoing controversy about the role of health-care workers in transmission of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). We did a... 
Infectious Disease | METHICILLIN-RESISTANT | INFECTIOUS DISEASES | SPINAL-CORD INJURY | AFFAIRS-MEDICAL-CENTER | RISK-FACTORS | MUPIROCIN-RESISTANT | HOSPITAL OUTBREAK | RESISTANT-STAPHYLOCOCCUS-AUREUS | NASAL CARRIAGE | FIELD GEL-ELECTROPHORESIS | BLOOD-STREAM INFECTIONS | Prevalence | Staphylococcus aureus - isolation & purification | Cross Infection - prevention & control | Humans | Risk Factors | Male | Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient | Cross Infection - transmission | Staphylococcal Infections - transmission | Staphylococcal Infections - epidemiology | Health Personnel | Female | Staphylococcal Infections - prevention & control | Methicillin Resistance | Staphylococcus aureus - drug effects | Carrier State | Hygiene | Cross Infection - epidemiology
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10. Full Text Capturing the cloud of diversity reveals complexity and heterogeneity of MRSA carriage, infection and transmission
by Paterson, Gavin K and Harrison, Ewan M and Murray, Gemma G. R and Welch, John J and Warland, James H and Holden, Matthew T. G and Morgan, Fiona J. E and Ba, Xiaoliang and Koop, Gerrit and Harris, Simon R and Maskell, Duncan J and Peacock, Sharon J and Herrtage, Michael E and Parkhill, Julian and Holmes, Mark A
Nature Communications, ISSN 2041-1723, 2015, Volume 6, Issue 1, p. 6560
Genome sequencing is revolutionizing clinical microbiology and our understanding of infectious diseases. Previous studies have largely relied on the sequencing... 
AGR DYSFUNCTION | INSERTIONAL INACTIVATION | EVOLUTION | PROTEIN | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | SEQUENCE | SITES | SAMPLES | RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS-AUREUS | CULTURE | BAYESIAN-INFERENCE | Humans | Hospitals, Animal | Phylogeny | Sequence Analysis, DNA | Virulence Factors | Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient | Staphylococcal Infections - veterinary | Zoonoses - transmission | Genetic Variation | Staphylococcal Infections - transmission | Animals | DNA, Bacterial - genetics | Dogs | Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide | Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus - genetics | Carrier State - transmission | Deactivation | Microbiology | Pathogenesis | Copy number | Phages | Virulence | Staphylococcus infections | Genomes | Inactivation | Drug resistance | Gene sequencing | Methicillin | Heterogeneity | Infectious diseases | Mutation | Clinical microbiology
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11. Full Text Comparative efficacy of interventions to promote hand hygiene in hospital: systematic review and network meta-analysis
by Luangasanatip, Nantasit and Hongsuwan, Maliwan and Limmathurotsakul, Direk and Lubell, Yoel and Lee, Andie S and Harbarth, Stephan and Day, Nicholas P J and Graves, Nicholas and Cooper, Ben S
BMJ : British Medical Journal, ISSN 0959-8138, 7/2015, Volume 351, p. h3728
Objective To evaluate the relative efficacy of the World Health Organization 2005 campaign (WHO-5) and other interventions to promote hand hygiene among... 
RESEARCH | LEADERS-DIRECTED STRATEGY | IMPROVE NURSES ADHERENCE | MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | HEALTH-CARE WORKERS | SUSTAINED IMPROVEMENT | SEGMENTED REGRESSION | POSITIVE DEVIANCE | NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION | INTERRUPTED TIME-SERIES | RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS-AUREUS | PROGRAM | Health Promotion | Hospitals | Interrupted Time Series Analysis | Motivation | Cross Infection - prevention & control | Cost-Benefit Analysis | Health Personnel | Humans | Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient - prevention & control | Hand Hygiene - standards | Health Resources - supply & distribution | Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
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12. AIDS, dentistry, and the illusion of infection control
: questioning the HIV hypothesis
by Hardie, John
1995, ISBN 0773442340, viii, 341
Prevention | Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome | methods | AIDS (Disease) | Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient | Safety measures | Cross infection | Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional | Dentistry | prevention & control
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13. Full Text Shedding of norovirus in symptomatic and asymptomatic infections
by Teunis, P.F.M and Sukhrie, F.H.A and Vennema, H and Bogerman, J and Beersma, M.F.C and Koopmans, M.P.G
Epidemiology and Infection, ISSN 0950-2688, 03/2015, Volume 143, Issue 8, pp. 1710 - 1717
Norovirus is the most frequent cause of acute infectious gastroenteritis and it is difficult to control in crowded environments like hospitals and nursing... 
gastrointestinal infections | Asymptomatic viral infections | Norwalk agent and related viruses | virology (human) and epidemiology | virus infection | INFECTIOUS DISEASES | ADULTS | EXCRETION | NORWALK VIRUS | NOSOCOMIAL TRANSMISSION | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | OUTBREAKS |