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International Resources and Education

 
An interesting article about using Google for influenza surveillance 
  
    To bring the best possible information, to the widest possible audience, with the fewest barriers to participation.

 

Webber Training supports Teleclass Education, an international lecture series on topics of interest to infection control professionals and other healthcare professionals worldwide.  Through this web site you can register as a Webber Training Member, you can sign up for live teleclasses (telephone-based lectures), you can listen to on-line recordings of the lectures, you can apply for Continuing Education Certificates, and you can order infection control education materials.

 

IFIC facilitates worldwide networking of individuals and societies active in infection prevention & control by fostering communication, providing essential tools and educational materials as well as helping in the development of infection control organizations where needed.

 

The International Federation of Infection Control Newsletter is available online.
Just follow this link http://www.theific.org/enews.asp for more details.

Readers:

International Journal of Infection Control has just published its latest issue at http://www.ijic.info. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest.

Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,
Elizabeth Anne Scicluna

International Journal of Infection Control
Vol 6, No 1 (2010)
Table of Contents
http://www.ijic.info/issue/view/392

Reviews
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Prevention and control of healthcare associated Infections within developing countries  Michael A Borg

Original Articles

Three months study of orthopaedic surgical site infections in an Egyptian University Hosptal        Ibtesam Kamel Afifi, Ehssan A Baghagho

Aerosol contamination in a rural university dental clinic in south India
Shashidhar Acharya, Harsh Priya, Bharathi Purohit, Meghashyam Bhat

Latex allergy in health care workers: prevalence and knowledge at a tertiary teaching hospital in a developing country
Nazir Ahmed Ismail, Anwar Ahmed Hoosen, Shaheen Mehtar

Standard precautions: knowledge and practice among nursing and medical students in a teaching hospital in Brazil
Mary Rocha-Carneiro Garcia-Zapata,  Adenícia Custódia Silva e Souza, Janaína Valadares Guimarães, Anaclara Ferreira Veiga Tipple, Marinésia Aparecida Prado, Marco Tulio Antonio García-Zapata

Toward improved education about methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: A Mental Models Approach to identify the Dutch general public’s beliefs
Fenne Verhoeven, Joyce Karreman, Anneke Bosma, Ron Hendrix, Lisette  van Gemert-Pijnen

Practice Forum

Successful control of MRSA spread in the Netherlands
Tim J.A. Dekker,    Peterhans J. Van den Broek

Letters to the Editor

Disinfection of dental impressions in dental colleges in India: a cause of
concern

Charu Mohan Marya,  Prasoon Shukla, Vandana Dahiya, Niraj Rampal

Recommendations on respiratory hygiene: kit of equipment and information for patients to improve their compliance
José Sánchez-Payá,  Julio Barrenengoa Sañudo,   Hector Martínez,    Robert
Camargo Angeles,    Patricia Garcia Shimizu

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