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The textbook is prepared in accordance with the curriculum of the discipline "Infection Control" for students of the training programme "Health Care", taking into account the requirements of educational qualification characteristics, educational and professional practical training and educational standards based on regulatory and directive materials of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. The modern concepts of hospital-acquired infections, their causes, etiology, epidemiology, principles of the epidemic process, ways of prevention, in particular, compliance with the sanitary and anti-epidemic regime of medical and preventive institutions of various profiles are presented.

Particular attention is paid to the three main stages of processing medical devices: disinfection, pre-sterilisation cleaning and sterilisation, and quality control. Data on the peculiarities of clinical and laboratory diagnostics and prevention of the most common hospital infections, in particular in intensive care units, are presented.

The manual uses the latest WHO materials and recommendations, data from domestic and foreign publications by leading experts, the latest recommendations and orders of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.

The material presented is presented at the modern scientific level in accordance with current international recommendations, adapted to new curricula.

For students of medical institutions of higher education, interns, students of medical institutions of postgraduate education, practitioners and nurses of practical health care.