Hygiene Measures
To ensure patient protection, healthcare workers must consistently implement standard precautions, including surface disinfection, hand hygiene, and the reprocessing of medical devices.
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Small, often even microscopic, living organisms; also called microbes. Microorganisms include, for example, Bacteria, Fungi, algae, or Yeasts. Viruses are not regarded as microorganisms as they cannot reproduce and do not have their own metabolism. In the narrower sense, they are therefore not considered living organisms.
