Institute for Hospital Hygiene and Infectiology
In this video we would like to introduce you to our main subject areas. Sooner or later, your personal work at the UMG will bring you into contact with one of the numerous subject areas of the Institute of Hospital Hygiene and Infectiology. We provide advice on medical issues relating to infection prevention and support hygiene measures in everyday clinical practice or in so-called outbreak situations. We also operate three specialised laboratories for routine tasks and research questions.
In detail, these are among many other tasks:
- Hospital-wide pathogen and infection recording, advice on basic and extended hygiene, isolation measures
- Advice on optimising preventive measures, interruption of so-called transmission events
- Analysing questionable or documented clusters of pathogen and infection events and helping to contain them
- Assistance with the implementation of legal provisions or official requirements, inspection of departments
- Research foci e.g. in the areas of degrees of relatedness of pathogens, major national research projects in the context of pandemic preparedness, molecular pathogen typing, risk prediction for infectious diseases, ecological sustainability in hygiene, as well as routine analyses in the context of quality assurance measures
- Advice on maintaining, remodelling or redesigning infrastructural planning (building technology), as well as construction measures (conversion and new construction)
We look forward to your visit!
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