Causes and spread of infection
The following resources are from the Public Health Agency, the regional organisation in Northern Ireland for health improvement and health protection.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘Microbes and the human body’ on the Microbiology Online website
- ‘Everything you need to know about infections' on the Medical News Today website
- ‘Disease and disease transmission' by the European Commission
- ‘Routes of transmission' on the Microbiology Online website
- ‘Protecting staff from infection' by NHS Employers
- ‘Communicable disease outbreak management' by Public Health England
- ‘Notifiable diseases by NHS: Infection Prevention and Control
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson’s first presentation on ‘The causes of infection’.
- Click to launch this lesson’s second presentation on ‘Transmission’.
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click to find resources and information about global disease outbreaks on the World Health Organisation website.
- Click to read ‘Systemic diseases versus localized diseases’ on the Revere Healthcare website.
- Click to read ‘What are infectious diseases?’ on the Your Genome website.
- Click to read ‘MRSA’ by NHS: Infection Prevention and Control.
- Click to read ‘Outbreak management’ by NHS: Infection Prevention and Control.
- Click to read ‘Outbreaks of communicable disease’ by NHS: Infection Prevention and Control.
- The following resources are from the Public Health Agency, the regional organisation in Northern Ireland for health improvement and health protection.
- ‘Healthcare associated infections - Patient and visitor leaflets’
- ‘Norovirus incidents & outbreaks in nursing & residential homes’
- ‘Preventing food poisoning in hospital and at home’
- ‘E. coli O157: Professional information factsheet’
- Think And Challenge
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