Infection control
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Infection control is the discipline concerned with preventing nosocomial or healthcare-associated infection, a practical (rather than academic) sub-discipline of epidemiology. It is an essential, though often underrecognized and undersupported, part of the infrastructure of health care. Infection control and hospital epidemiology are akin to public health practice, practiced within the confines of a particular health-care delivery system rather than directed at society as a whole. Anti-infective agents include antibiotics, antibacterials, antifungals, antivirals and antiprotozoals.
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See also
- Centre for Infection Prevention and Management
- Computer virus
- Cordon sanitaire
- Infectious disease
- Nosocomial infection
- Protective sequestration
- Quarantine
- Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
- Social distancing
- Transmission (medicine)
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