دانلود کتاب INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND ROLE OF MICROBIOLOGY LABORATORY

The healthcare-associated infections HAIs are international health
problem and its major cause of death worldwide with wide range
complications among healthcare workers, patients, and visitors, And
these complications are very expensive from the humanitarian and
economic aspects and cause increase in healthcare resources waste as
increase medications and medical supplies consumption, intensive uses
of diagnostic laboratory services, sharp rising hospital's admission
rates and other harmful effects on patient's life. As currently, medical
laboratory specialists are the cornerstones of diagnosis of infectious
diseases, the number of medical laboratories science colleges has increased, with a high
number of highly qualified specialists with a strong background on microbiology and
epidemiology of various disciplines that include clinical chemistry, microbiology,
hematology, immunology, and histopathology. Those specialists work in laboratories of
varying sizes and resources. Most of those specialists perform most tasks from different
disciplines, including the microbiological tests. Therefore, the junior laboratory specialist
must be fully familiar with the basic tasks and activities of infection control and prevention.
The aim of this review is to know the general principles of infection control and prevention
and the role of medical laboratory specialists, hoping that the medical laboratory specialists
will play a valuable and effective role in the field of infection control and prevention, thereby
preventing hospital infections and antibiotic resistance and providing a safe environment for
the patient, health care providers and the community.