Infections in Confined Spaces: Cruise Ships, Military Barracks, and College Dormitories

The presence of a vast cohort of individuals in semi-confined settings such as cruise ships, military barracks, and college dormitories is often accompanied by an increase in the risk of particular infections. These are often gastrointestinal infections on cruise ships and respiratory pathogens that...

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Autor principal: Kak, Vivek
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7173025/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17826623
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idc.2007.06.004
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description The presence of a vast cohort of individuals in semi-confined settings such as cruise ships, military barracks, and college dormitories is often accompanied by an increase in the risk of particular infections. These are often gastrointestinal infections on cruise ships and respiratory pathogens that are easily transmitted in the barrack and dormitory setting. The control of these infections involves attention to good personal hygiene, safe food and water handling, and use of vaccines to prevent vaccine-preventable diseases.
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spelling pubmed-71730252020-04-22 Infections in Confined Spaces: Cruise Ships, Military Barracks, and College Dormitories Kak, Vivek Infect Dis Clin North Am Article The presence of a vast cohort of individuals in semi-confined settings such as cruise ships, military barracks, and college dormitories is often accompanied by an increase in the risk of particular infections. These are often gastrointestinal infections on cruise ships and respiratory pathogens that are easily transmitted in the barrack and dormitory setting. The control of these infections involves attention to good personal hygiene, safe food and water handling, and use of vaccines to prevent vaccine-preventable diseases. Elsevier Inc. 2007-09 2007-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7173025/ /pubmed/17826623 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idc.2007.06.004 Text en Copyright © 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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