Covid-19 exposes the gaps in infection prevention and control

• Covid-19 has highlighted how little we really know about controlling infection. • The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has ignited a tsunami of interest in basic hygiene. • Despite a shaky evidence base, hygienic activities have propelled infection control onto the global stage. • Covid-19 has compelled us to...

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Autor principal: Dancer, Stephanie J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7437566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32863200
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idh.2020.08.005
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spelling pubmed-74375662020-08-20 Covid-19 exposes the gaps in infection prevention and control Dancer, Stephanie J. Infect Dis Health Editorial • Covid-19 has highlighted how little we really know about controlling infection. • The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has ignited a tsunami of interest in basic hygiene. • Despite a shaky evidence base, hygienic activities have propelled infection control onto the global stage. • Covid-19 has compelled us to re-examine the chain of transmission as never before. Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2020-11 2020-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7437566/ /pubmed/32863200 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idh.2020.08.005 Text en © 2020 Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control. Published by Elsevier B.V. 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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