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Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Prevention of Salmonella
Prevention of salmonellosis in children is primarily directed at the source of infection and is carried out by the medical and veterinary services.
Activities include the rehabilitation of domestic animals, prevention of the spread of salmonella among them. Compliance with the sanitary regime at meat processing plants, poultry farms and dairy enterprises. In order to exclude the infection of raw materials in the process of slaughtering animals and birds, cutting carcasses, storing. Transportation and sales. The sale and consumption of raw duck and goose eggs is forbidden due to their high contamination with salmonella.
Measures to prevent the spread of salmonella in children's groups are practically the same as those for other acute intestinal infections. The early detection and isolation of the source of infection (patients with salmonellosis or bacterioviruses) is crucial. A single bacteriological study of bowel movements of all patients with bowel dysfunction, children on admission to organized children's groups, as well as women in childbirth entering the maternity hospitals is conducted. When bakteriovydelenii cooks, nurses, nurses, doctors are removed from the main work to the sanitation of the body from salmonella.
Isolation of the patient is stopped after complete clinical recovery and a single negative bacteriological study of feces, conducted no earlier than 3 days after the end of etiotropic therapy. Children attending the junior group of the kindergarten are subject to follow-up for 3 months with a mandatory monthly bacteriological examination for bacteriocarrier. Salmonella bacilli in children's day nurseries, child's homes are not allowed, they are allowed to visit these institutions only after receiving three negative results of a stool test conducted within 15 days after the last sowing of Salmonella.
In the event of group outbreaks of salmonellosis, all children and attendants are subject to bacteriological examination, and also the remains of food consumed in the last 1-2 days are examined; check the place of their storage, the technology of cooking and its implementation.
Quarantine in case of salmonellosis is not imposed, only medical supervision of contacts is established within 7 days from the moment of isolating the patient. Conduct the final and current disinfection. Specific prevention of salmonella is not carried out. In the foci of salmonella infection with a preventive goal, you can use a complex immunoglobulin preparation (CIP) (1 dose every 3-5 days).
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