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The current pandemic caused by COVID-19 has underlined the importance of a joint effort and approach to ensure patient and health care worker safety in medical care throughout Europe.
In addition, the recent flood disasters in Germany and other countries called for immediate joint action, in this case with regard to the prevention of water-borne in...
The technical requirements and hygiene standards for the buildings and internal building installations of the medical establishments provided in various normative documents are considered. Fulfillment of these requirements would increase the readiness of medical institutions to isolate a (suspected) patient with an airborne infection (such as Sever...
The risk of exposure to bloodborne viruses like VHB, VHC and HIV is a well known occupational risk for medical personnel (MP). In Bulgaria, protection of MP from HBV infection through immunization with a safe and highly effective recombinant vaccine is arranged according to the Ministry of Health’s regulations. Also, the recommendations of the Dire...
Questionnaire survey on the main aspects of prevention and infection control was performed in 52 multi-profile hospitals for active treatment in the country in July-September 2018. In addition to the questions asked in our previous surveys more data were collected about the central sterile supply departments (CSSD) in 41 hospitals and medical perso...
As a result of dramatic political and economic changes in the beginning of the 1990s, Q-fever epidemiology in Bulgaria has changed. The number of goats almost tripled; contact between goat owners (and their families) and goats, as well as goats and other animals, increased; consumption of raw goat milk and its products increased; and goats replaced...
Oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) can cause, in extremely rare cases vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis in recipients, or contacts of vaccinees. Three cases of vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (two contacts and one recipient) occurred in the Bourgas region of Bulgaria in the spring of 2006. The first two cases, notified as acute flacc...
Pertussis (wooping cough) is a well-known childhood respiratory disease and is caused primarily by Bordetella pertussis. The disease is quite relevant among adults and adolescents in whom the disease symptoms are often atypical. Several objectives had this pilot study: evaluation of spread of pertussis infection in Bulgaria by PCR, evaluatation of...
In Bulgaria, in parallel with recognition of the need to control nosocomial infections (NI), since the early 1950s a national infection control program has been gradually developed. This report summarizes the information on the key strategies implemented and the lessons learnt from the past experience. Based on the historical background the perspec...
As a result of dramatic political and economic changes in the beginning of the 1990s, Q-fever epidemiology in Bulgaria has changed. The number of goats almost tripled; contact between goat owners (and their families) and goats, as well as goats and other animals, increased; consumption of raw goat milk and its products increased; and goats replaced...