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Infection Control

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Disease and outbreak investigation

Infection control

Long-term care facilities

HIPAA

• General disease control
• Foodborne disease control
• Zoonotic disease control
• Antimicrobial resistance

General disease and infection control

• Cover your cough posters: practice respiratory etiquette and stop the spread of disease
• Exposure control for airborne and droplet-spread diseases
• Sanitation/disinfection basics (PDF 113K)
• Controlling person-to-person transmission in care facilities (PDF 30K)
• Cleaning up vomit and feces and other unpleasant tasks (PDF 33K)
• Prevention of Communicable Disease in Schools: Oregon Dept. of Education School Health Services Manual
• CDC Manual for the Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases 3rd Edition, 2002

Foodborne disease control

• Compendium of foodborne diseases
• CDC and other web foodborne disease resources
• Oregon FoodNet
• Foodborne disease outbreak investigation steps, investigative guidelines and case report forms

Zoonotic disease control

• Oregon Health Services' animal bite/rabies response algorithm
• Compendium of measures to prevent disease and injury associated with animals in public settings, 2004 (PDF 18pp)
• Reducing the risk for transmission of enteric pathogens at venues where the public has contact with farm animals (PDF 54K)
• American Veterinary Medical Association:
  • 2005 Compendium of animal rabies prevention and control (PDF 192K)
  • 2003 Compendium of measures to control chlamydophila psittaci infection among humans (psittacosis) and pet birds

Antimicrobial resistance

• Management of antimicrobial-resistant microorganisms in long-term-care facilities
• Oregon AWARE: antibiotic resistance education website