This powerpoint presentation begins by providing a brief overview of the problem of healthcare-associated
Legionnaires' Disease, and the National Nosocomial
Infections Surveillance Survey. The components of a comprehensive
prevention program are presented and include the following:
clinical surveillance;
primary prevention;
environmental testing; and,
secondary prevention. Presentation conclusions indicate the following: quality data are lacking for many prevention
strategies;
in the absence of these data, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has adopted
a strategy focused on clinical surveillance and
primary environmental prevention;
in high risk settings, CDC has adopted a
permissive approach to environmental culturing
in the absence of disease; and,
support the need for a uniform approach to
prevention. Includes tables, figures.
| Edition : | Vol. - No. |
| File Size : | 1
file
, 2 MB |
| Note : | This product is unavailable in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus |
| Number of Pages : | 28 |
| Published : | 11/01/2008 |
