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== Broader goal than cross infection == | |||
While there was indeed hospital infection with SARS, there was also a very real concern with it getting out of isolation and into the community; most Toronto cases outside hospitals, IIRC, came from healthcare workers. | |||
In like manner, there are concerns about community-based strains getting into vulnerable hospital populations. Consider an organism that acquired multidrug resistance from agricultural overuse or IVDA getting into a transplant unit. | |||
[[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 16:07, 31 October 2008 (UTC) | |||
Latest revision as of 10:07, 31 October 2008
Broader goal than cross infection
While there was indeed hospital infection with SARS, there was also a very real concern with it getting out of isolation and into the community; most Toronto cases outside hospitals, IIRC, came from healthcare workers.
In like manner, there are concerns about community-based strains getting into vulnerable hospital populations. Consider an organism that acquired multidrug resistance from agricultural overuse or IVDA getting into a transplant unit.
Howard C. Berkowitz 16:07, 31 October 2008 (UTC)