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Commercial reference removed

I revised the section entitled "Surveillance for emerging infections" to eliminate a reference to a commercial product that is neither unique nor a standard within the field. Benjaloo 01:18, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Prevention of Surgical Site infection

Hello THis is DR SB Kulkarni. Am an microbiologist and have worked in infection control especialy regarding prevention of Surgical Site infections. There is no mention of the topic on this page. Is there anyone out there who would like to share their experiences in infection control with me? Dr Sanjay Kulkarni

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I have an interest in expanding the healthcare infection prevention and control sections of wikipedia. I would suggest that Infection Control-related pages be re-categorised as 'Healthcare infection prevention and control". Not as a sub-category under Epidemiology. Any thoughts from others? 58.105.146.22 (talk) 04:08, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think it would be good to mention that surfaces should be disinfected because harmful bacteria can stay on surfaces even days after contact, increasing the chances of spreading the bacteria through person to person contact.

propose merge from Cross-infection control

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The result was merge into Infection control.

The new page (Cross-infection control) is essentially a synonym, and is not a term in wide use. The content there is minimal, and lacks reliable sources. I was tempted to suggest speedy deletion, but merge seemed worth proposing. -- Scray (talk) 22:55, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agree: I am the author of the stub above, I didnt spot the extensive infection control article in existence already! I suggest a merge and redirect Cross-infection control to this article. Ashley Payne (talk) 22:36, 3 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. Go ahead, Scray, and merge the two; perhaps Ashley would like to edit the text "into" the article. Drmies (talk) 23:08, 3 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Merge complete, hope I included all the key content. In the process I created some new content for Infection control, but it still needs a lot of fleshing out. -- Scray (talk) 02:37, 5 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Disputed Section on Post-Exposure Prophylaxis

It appears that this section has existed without references for quite some time. (with the citations needed tag being added in 2014) I would therefore formally Dispute the validity of the claim due to the fact that it appears that the body of evidence actually seems to suggest against it if anything, and will remove it within the next week, if proper references are not cited. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.91.178.54 (talk) 01:56, 7 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I would agree with immediate removal of the content. USN007 (talk) 01:59, 7 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Removed as proposed. This is definitely problematic to present without sources. bd2412 T 04:02, 7 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note that 71.91.178.54 is USN007. Luckily BD2412 is also stating an opinion for consensus rather than just just socks agreeing with themself. DMacks (talk) 00:49, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that the vaccination section should be expanded on. Statistics or a table displaying statistics for the effectiveness of the vaccinations would benefit the section and article overall. Using stats would allow for the reader to better understand how the use of such prevention can work User:nkremer1 (User talk:nkremer1) 1:42, 27 September 2021 (UTC)