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Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology is primarily composed of infection prevention and control professionals with nursing or medical technology backgrounds; The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America is more heavily weighted towards practitioners who are physicians or doctoral-level epidemiologists.
Infectious disease, infection control [ edit on Wikidata ] Decolonization , also bacterial decolonization , is a medical intervention that attempts to rid a patient of an antimicrobial resistant pathogen, [ 1 ] such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or antifungal-resistant Candida .
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 ...
Colonization resistance is the mechanism whereby the microbiome protects itself against incursion by new and often harmful microorganisms. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Colonization resistance was first identified in 1967, and it was initially referred to as antibiotic -associated susceptibility.
colonization of a niche in the host (this includes movement towards and attachment to host cells) [1] [2] immunoevasion, evasion of the host's immune response [1] [2] [3] immunosuppression, inhibition of the host's immune response (this includes leukocidin-mediated cell death) [1] entry into and exit out of cells (if the pathogen is an ...
Contamination control is the generic term for all activities aiming to control the existence, growth and proliferation of contamination in certain areas. Contamination control may refer to the atmosphere as well as to surfaces, to particulate matter as well as to microbes and to contamination prevention as well as to decontamination .
Hazard analysis critical control points, or HACCP (/ ˈ h æ s ʌ p / [1]), is a systematic preventive approach to food safety from biological, chemical, and physical hazards in production processes that can cause the finished product to be unsafe and designs measures to reduce these risks to a safe level.
An infection is the invasion of tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce. [1] An infectious disease, also known as a transmissible disease or communicable disease, is an illness resulting from an infection.