Abstract
The hospital environment is a unique example of an enclosed environment where two distinct groups of individuals interact. The close interactions between health-care workers and the patients’ that they take care for act as a two-way street where pathogens can transfer rarely from the patient to the health-care workers (HCW) and more commonly from the health-care workers to the patient. The aim of infection prevention in this setting is to minimize and attempt to eliminate this two-way traffic and thus keep the health-care worker safe and healthy from patient-acquired infections and as importantly prevent transfer of pathogenic organism and infections from the health-care worker to the patient.
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Kak, V. (2014). Vaccinations and Infection Prevention. In: Wattal, C., Khardori, N. (eds) Hospital Infection Prevention. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1608-7_2
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