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It is estimated that about 8% of the population in developed countries undergoes various minor and major infections each year. Translated to hospital employees, these are persons aged 20–70 years with varied composition and disease panorama probably like the rest of the general population. They may charge the hospital with the spread of infection to susceptible patients. There may also be an unknown potential of hospital infections transmitted to and from healthcare workers. Therefore, it is important to have good control measures and routines around personnel with infections.
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Andersen, B.M. (2019). Employees with Infections or Carrier Status. In: Prevention and Control of Infections in Hospitals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99921-0_8
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