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General Resources

• Patient Safety Indicators

  • Patient Safety - Public Information from the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (PDF)
     

• Prehospital Emergency Care Syllabus

  • Ministry of Health & Long Term Care – Prehospital Emergency Care Syllabus (pdf)
     

• Specimen Submission Lab Guide

  • Ministry of Health & Long Term Care – Specimen Collection Guide, Testing Guidelines for Public Health Laboratories (pdf)
     

Infectious Diseases (in Alphabetical Order)

Clostridium

• APC Action APPS - Web Networks – CIPHI, Clostridium Difficile Fact Sheet (.doc)

CJD

• Public Health Agency of Canada - Information on Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) - Human Form of Mad Cow disease

• Public health Agency of Canada – CJD, Infection Control Guidelines from CCDR (Canada Communicable Disease Report)

• CDC (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention) CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Classic)

Cryptosporidiosis

• CDC (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention) – Cryptosporidiosis Fact Sheet

Diarrhea, Management of

• APC Action APPS - Web Networks – CIPHI, Information Sheet (.doc)

Food poisoning sport fish

• Ministry of Health & Long Term Care – Sport Fish Contaminant Monitoring Program, Information Sheet

E.Coli (veritoxin producing –HUS)

• Ministry of Health & Long Term Care – E. Coli Information Sheet

• Ministry of Health & Long Term Care – Health Notice for Healthcare Professionals, Possible Food Contamination by E.Coli and Salmonella Bacteria (pdf)

• Ministry of Health & Long Term Care – Water Safety: Pathogens and Your Well Water

• CDC (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention) – E.Coli Information Sheet

Hepatitis A

• Ministry of Health & Long Term Care – Hepatitis A, Information Sheet

• APC Action APPS - Web Networks – CIPHI, Hepatitis A Fact Sheet (.doc)

• Ministry of Health & Long Term Care – Immunization Health Links

• Ministry of Health & Long Term Care – Hepatitis A Information Sheet

• Ministry of Health & Long Term Care – Hepatitis A Fact Sheet (pdf)

• Public Health Agency of Canada – Hepatitis A, Vaccine-Preventable Diseases

• Public Health Agency of Canada – Hepatitis A Fact Sheet

Legionellosis

• Ministry of Health & Long Term Care – Legionellosis Health Notice for Health Care Professionals - Outbreak in Toronto Nursing Home (pdf)

• CDC (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention) – Legionellosis: Legionnaires' Disease (LD) and Pontiac Fever

Listeriosis

• CDC (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention) – Listeriosis Fact Sheet

Lyme Disease

• Ministry of Health & Long Term Care – Lyme Disease Information Sheet

• Ministry of Health & Long Term Care – Lyme Disease – 2006, Epidemiological Report

• Public Health Agency of Canada – Lyme Disease Information and Fact Sheets

• Public Health Agency of Canada – Material Safety Data Sheet, Infections Substances, Infectious Agent Borrelia Burgdorferi or Lyme Disease

• CDC (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention) – Lyme Disease Information Sheet with Links to other information

Norovirus

• Public Health Agency of Canada – Norovirus Fact Sheet

• CDC (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention) – Norovirus Facts and Outbreak Ariticles

• APC Action APPS - Web Networks – CIPHI, Norovirus Information Sheet (.doc)

Non pathogenic Amoeba

• APC Action APPS - Web Networks – CIPHI, Non-Pathogenic Intestinal Amoebas (.doc)

Parasites

• APC Action APPS - Web Networks – CIPHI, Parasite Information Sheet (.doc)

Pinworms

• APC Action APPS - Web Networks – CIPHI, Pinworm Information Sheet (.doc)

Plague

• Public Health Agency of Canada – Plague Information Sheet

• Ministry of Health & Long Term Care – Plague Fact Sheet (pdf)

• Ministry of Health & Long Term Care – Plague Information Sheet

• Ministry of Health & Long Term Care – Plague Information Sheet

• CDC (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention) – Facts about Pneumonic Plague Information Sheet

Psittacosis/Ornithosis

• Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety – Psittacosis Information Sheet

• CDC (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention) – Psittacosis Fact Sheet

Q-Fever

• Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety – Q-Fever Information Sheet

• Ministry of Health & Long Term Care – Q-Fever Information Sheet

• CDC (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention) – Q-Fever Information Sheet

Rabies

• Public Health Agency of Canada – Rabies Information Sheet

• Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety – Rabies Information Sheet

• Canadian Food Inspection Agency – Rabies Information Sheet

• Ministry of Health & Long Term Care – Rabies Information Sheet

• Ministry of Health & Long Term Care – Rabies in Animals Information Sheet

• Ministry of Natural Resources - Rabies Research and Development Unit Website

• World Health Organization - Human and Animal Rabies

• Ministry of Health & Long Term Care – Rabies Vaccinations for Humans Information Sheet

• Ministry of Health & Long Term Care – Rabies Fact Sheet  (pdf)

• Ministry of Health & Long Term Care – Health Links:  Immunization

Rotavirus

• APC Action APPS - Web Networks – CIPHI, Rotavirus Fact Sheet (.doc)

Salmonellosis

• Ministry of Health & Long Term Care – Salmonella Bacteria Fact Sheet

• Ministry of Health & Long Term Care – Publications:  Food Safety

• CDC (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention) – Salmonellosis Information Sheet

• APC Action APPS - Web Networks – CIPHI, Salmonellosis Fact Sheet (.doc)

Shigellosis

• CDC (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention) – Shingellosis Information Sheet

• APC Action APPS - Web Networks – CIPHI, Shingellosis Fact Sheet (.doc)

Tularemia

• Public Health Agency of Canada – Tularemia Health Links

• Ministry of Health & Long Term Care – Tularemia Fact Sheet (pdf)

• Ministry of Health & Long Term Care – Tularemia Information Sheet

• CDC (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention) – Tularemia Information Sheet

Yersiniosis

• CDC (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention) – Yersinia enterocolitica Information Sheet

West Nile Virus

• Public Health Agency of Canada – West Nile Virus Information Sheet

• Ministry of Health & Long Term Care – Provincial Surveillance for West Nile Virus (pdf)

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