Indicator organisms

Hygienic hand disinfection prevents the transmission of pathogens from one patient to another. You avoid the entry of pathogens into wounds or onto medical equipment.

Marburg virus is a filamentous, bacillus or sometimes U-shaped, enveloped virus of the Filoviridae family. Marburg virus infections trigger haemorrhagic fever and damage the organs. Transmission seems to occur primarily via direct contact with...