Prescott's Microbiology
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ISBN: 9781260211887
Author: WILLEY, Sandman, Wood
Publisher: McGraw Hill
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Chapter 36.5, Problem 2CC
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The healthcare-associated (HCA) diseases are usually found to be in a hospital set-up or in a clinic, where people come with infectious diseases and may pass it over to healthy individuals within the hospital, or from hospital to the local community. The healthcare-associated diseases circulate within the hospital premises and may spread to the community or population from the person who visits and leaves the hospital.
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