Guidance

Preventing person-to-person gastrointestinal infections

Precautions to stop infection spread aimed at public health and environmental health professionals.

Documents

Guidance updates on preventing person-to-person spread of gastrointestinal infections

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This guidance focuses on avoiding the spread of gastrointestinal infections. It is aimed at public health physicians and environmental health officers who do not specialise in communicable disease control. It looks at general measures such as enteric precautions and exclusion from work and school.

Published 10 April 2004