Hong Kong Training Portal on
Infection Control and Infectious Disease

School and Child Care Centres

• Group A beta-haemolytic streptococcal infection in children. (April 2024)

Long Term Care Facilities

• Association of Exposure to High-risk Antibiotics in Acute Care Hospitals With Multidrug-Resistant Organism Burden in Nursing Homes. (February 2022)
• Challenges of infection prevention and control in Scottish long-term care facilities. (August 2020)
• Hospital affiliated long term care facility COVID-19 containment strategy by using prevalence testing and infection control best practices. (July 2020)
• Healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use in long-term care facilities (HALT3): an overview of the Italian situation. (August 2019)
• Education and Consistent Infection Prevention Practices Prevail: An Outbreak of CRE in a Long Term Acute Care Hospital. (June 2019)
• High Hand Contamination Rates During Norovirus Outbreaks in Long-Term Care Facilities. (February 2018)
• Infection prevention outside of the acute care setting: Results from the MegaSurvey of infection preventionists. (June 2017)
• Infection Control in Alternative Health Care Settings: An Update. (September 2016)
• Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation of Fever and Infection in Older Adult Residents of Long-Term Care Facilities: 2008 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. (January 2009)
• Carbapenem-Resistant Escherichia coli Harboring Klebsiella pneumoniae Carbapenemase β-Lactamases Associated with Long-Term Care Facilities. (June 2008)

Primary Care and Outpatient Setting

• Rethinking the Utility of the Audio-Only Encounter: A Case of Herpes Zoster Co-Infection in Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2. (December 2023)
• Cost-of-illness comparison between clinical judgment and molecular point-of-care testing for influenza-like illness patients in Germany. (January 2023)
• Reduction in the prevalence of methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureusin tissue and wound swab samples taken from outpatients attending a specialist diabetic foot clinic 2005–2021. (March 2023)
• Antimicrobial-resistant Gram-negative colonization in infants from a neonatal intensive care unit in Thailand. (October 2019)
• Infection prevention and control measures and tools for the prevention of entry of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae into healthcare settings: guidance from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. (2017)
• Improving infection prevention practice in primary and community care. (December 2012)