The transmission of infectious disease or pathogens from health professional or health care worker to patients. It includes transmission via direct or indirect exposure to bacterial, fungal, parasitic, or viral agents.
    

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Hospital infection : breaking the chain of transmission / Imperial Chemical Industries PLC, Pharmaceuticals Division.

Aspects of infection control : hands as vectors of disease / J. Ojajärvi.

Puerperal fever as a private pestilence / by Oliver Wendell Holmes.

The contagiousness of puerperal fever / by Oliver W. Holmes.

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Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient

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Hospital infection : breaking the chain of transmission / Imperial Chemical Industries PLC, Pharmaceuticals Division.

Aspects of infection control : hands as vectors of disease / J. Ojajärvi.

Puerperal fever as a private pestilence / by Oliver Wendell Holmes.

The contagiousness of puerperal fever / by Oliver W. Holmes.