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... > Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Communicable Disease Control > Infection Control
... > Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Communicable Disease Control > Infection Control
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Communicable Disease Control > Infection Control

Preferred term

Infection Control  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • Programs of disease surveillance, generally within health care facilities, designed to investigate, prevent, and control the spread of infections and their causative microorganisms.

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Entry terms

  • Control, Infection

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-LW926P5V-V

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