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Contact Precautions are designed to reduce the risk of transmission of
epidemiologically important microorganisms by direct or indirect contact.
Direct contact transmission involves skin-to-skin contact and physical
transfer of microorganisms to a susceptible host from an infected or
colonized person, such as occurs when personnel turn patients, bathe
patients, or perform other patient-care activities that require physical
contact. Direct contact transmission also can occur between two patients
(e.g., by hand contact), with one serving as the source of infectious
microorganisms and the other as a susceptible host. Indirect contact
transmission involves contact of a susceptible host with a contaminated
intermediate object, usually inanimate, in the patient's environment.
Contact Precautions apply to patients known or suspected to be
infected or colonized (presence of microorganism in or on patient but
without clinical signs and symptoms of infection) with epidemiologically
important microorganisms that can be transmitted by direct or indirect
contact.
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