Infection control in the child care center and preschool

• Other Authors: Grossman, Leigh B. (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia, PA Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2003
• Edition: SIXTH EDITION
• Subjects: Communicable Disease Control; Child Day Care Centers; Child, Preschool; Infant
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• Item Description: Includes index
• Physical Description: xxii, 343 pages 21 cm
• ISBN: 9780781745154; 0781745152

The thoroughly updated Sixth Edition of this popular handbook is an easy-to-use guide to infection control in daycare centers and preschools. More than 40 noted experts provide the practical, specific recommendations that child care and preschool providers, physicians, and public health officials need. The book explains how infections are spread and presents up-to-date guidelines on enrollment requirements, staff education, employee health, care of high-risk children, and investigation and management of outbreaks. Plus, 55 chapters focus on specific pathogens