Silpi Basak

Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College India

Dr.Silpi Basak has vast experience in Infection Control practices in Health Care set up. Dr.S.Basak is working as Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Wardha (M.S.) – 442004, India. She is teaching Microbiology to M.B.B.S., B.D.S. and M.D. Microbiology students since 24 years. She has attended many State and National conferences and presented paper. She has conducted National Hands on Training on Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) in 2008 and 2009. She has 30 publications in National and International journals. She has also published 05 chapters in books. She is reviewer of Journal of Clinical Diagnostics and Research. Her field of research is Resistance to Antimicrobial drugs and Infection Control Practices.

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Health Care associated infection (HAI) is an emerging problem worldwide. HAI causes increased morbidity, mortality and average length of stay of the patient in the hospital. HAI also imposes economic burden on the patient, health care set up and also State and National Health care system. It has been estimated that 5 10 % of all hospital admission suffers from HAI even in developed countries. But 30% of HAI are preventable, if we follow the infection control practices properly especially hand hygiene while giving patient care. Hence, in this book importance has been given to Infection Control practices along with emerging trends of HAI due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter species etc.

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