[Transmission of conventional agents during outpatient care].
Outpatient care bring together in a single location a large number of patients potentially bearing conventional infectious agents (virus, bacteria, fungi, parasites). This report details the germs potentially involved. We emphasize adenovirus epidemic keratoconjunctivitis, which is particularly prevalent in ophthalmology outpatient care. We analyze the modes of contamination and the means to prevent iatrogenic infections.
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Service d'Ophtalmologie, CHU Dupuytren, 2, avenue Martin Luther King, 87042 Limoges cedex. pierre-yves.robert@unlim.fr
D015817:Eye Infections / Q000628:therapy* / Q000635:transmission*; D015818:Eye Infections, Bacterial / Q000628:therapy; D015821:Eye Infections, Fungal / Q000628:therapy; D015822:Eye Infections, Parasitic / Q000628:therapy; D015828:Eye Infections, Viral / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D010045:Outpatients