Chapter 46: Biosecurity and Infection Control Flashcards
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What are the principal goals for infection control progrms in veterinary medicine?
Four principal goals for infection control programs:
1. Decreasing the likelihood oof exposure to infectious agents among patients and personnel.
2. Decreasing the intrinsic risks for health care-associated infections (HAIs).
3. Maximizign participation of personnel in innfection control activities.
4. Optimizing the efficiency of infection control procedures and policies.
What are the major actionn areas for infection control programs in veterinary medicine?
The four goals are achieved through 5 major actions:
1. Decreasig direct and indirect patient contact.
2. Optimizing hygiene.
3. Using proven directed actions that decrease risks or are protective agaist HAIs, as well as actions that have a reasoable likelihood of efficacy based on biology, principles of pathogen transmission and data from other species.
4. Identifyign high-risk patients annd HAIs through efficient surveillance strategies.
5. Optimizing communication and educationn among all personnel.
Of the commonly used veterinary disinfectants, which has activity against Cryptosporidium?
Peroxide/accelerated hydrogen peroxide is the only one with some activity against Crypto.
Zoonotic diseases of domestic large animal species that are transmissible throught occupational exposure.
- Anthrax
- Bordetella bronchiseptica
- Brucellosis
- Glanders/ Farcy (Burkholderia mallei)
- Campylobacter jejuni/ coli
- Chlostridiodes difficile
- Cl. perfringens
- Q fever (Coxiella burnetii)
- Crypto
- Dermatophilus congolensis
- Erysipelas
- STEC
- Tularemia (Fracisella tularensis)
- FMD
- Giardia
- Hendra virus
- Influenza virus
- Lepto
- Listeria
- Mycobacterium (TB)
- Nipah virus
- Parapox viruses (Orf/ BPSV)
- Rabies virus
- Rift Valley Fever virus
- Rhodococcus equi
- Ringworm (Microsporum/ Trichophyto sp.)
- Salmonella enterica
- MRSA
- Strep suis
- Vesicular stomatitis virus
