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What is the difference between contamination, colonisation and infection? |
infection control in healthcare environments You can be contaminated by all sorts of things, chemicals, virus's, bacterias. An infection is when your body comes in contact w/ something may it be bacteria or virus's and for whatever reason is unable to fight it off. You get symptoms of an infection. Some infections just run their course & don't need any treatment (virus's), some you may just need over the counter antibiotic ointment & to keep a cut or burn clean. Other types of infections: respiratory, wound, urinary tract, etc, etc, may need antibiotics. Some infections are very tough to cure ( certain bacteria), we are increasingly seeing them in the hospital for no apparent reason and we need stronger medication & a longer time to cure them. These certain types are called antibiotic resistant infections, they take a long time to cure and are transmitable to others who are caring for them or have chronic health problems, are young or have depressed immune systems(the elderly, HIV/AIDS pt's, and pt's w/ cancer). Sometimes these individuals can be cured of the acute symptoms of a wound or respiratory or gastrointestinal antibiotic resistant infection, but remain what we call colonized. It means that if a culture were taken of certain places on their body it would continue to come back positive for that organism. They are no longer acutely ill but their body is colonized w/ that organism. contamination-something that physically contaminates a substance |
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