Throughout our journey in infection control practice, training &
teaching, the claim for a handy guide became a necessity. This book
offers a simplified approach for infection control application targeting
junior health care professionals. It highlights the fundamentals, so
they could adopt their role in health care system putting the safety as
a first priority (FIRST DO NO HARM). The book includes 16 chapters
covering the updates in basic infection control practices starting by
host parasite relationship, common types of hospital acquired
infections, infection chain, standard & transmission based precautions.
The book ends by a summary of applied measures in critical hospital
wards (ICU, NICU& OR) and care bundles that address the evidenced based
practices. The 1st edition was published in 2014. It was greatly
appreciated from readers. The book is prepared by a group of associate
professors & lecturers of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Zagazig
University, Egypt: Rehab El-Sokkary, Rehab Tash, Noha Hammad, Mai Malek,
Alia El-Shahaway, Randa Saddek, Enas Tantawy, Manar Soliman, Raghdaa
Ramadan, Rania Aamer, Wafaa Metwally, Manar Gebriel, Lobna El-Korashi,
Noura Metwaly.