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Other infections

As well as reducing the risks from MRSA and C difficile, the precautions we have in place will reduce the risk from other infection as well.

Occasionally even stronger precautions are needed; people whose immune systems have been particularly badly affected by their disease or treatment will be nursed in a single room in ‘protective isolation’ in order to reduce contact with infectious microorganisms.

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