{"title":"[Procedure in case of suspicion of a high consequence infectious disease].","authors":"Luděk Rožnovský, Stanislav Plíšek","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>High consequence infectious diseases (HCIDs) are feared for their high lethality and easy interpersonal transmission, posing a particular threat to healthcare workers. This article provides a brief history and characteristics of HCIDs, the procedure for healthcare workers in the event of suspecting an HCID, the coordinating function of an epidemiologist, and the gradual involvement of all components of the integrated rescue system, leading to transporting the patient to the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Bulovka University Hospital in Prague. Activation of the Ministry of Health and the National Institute of Public Health aims to arrange HCID diagnosis in a laboratory abroad. An integral part of the measures is carrying out proper disinfection at the outbreak site and treating contacts with the HCID. Keywords: high consequence infectious diseases, outbreak, contact.</p>","PeriodicalId":17909,"journal":{"name":"Klinicka mikrobiologie a infekcni lekarstvi","volume":"31 3","pages":"90-95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Klinicka mikrobiologie a infekcni lekarstvi","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Medicine","Score":null,"Total":0}
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High consequence infectious diseases (HCIDs) are feared for their high lethality and easy interpersonal transmission, posing a particular threat to healthcare workers. This article provides a brief history and characteristics of HCIDs, the procedure for healthcare workers in the event of suspecting an HCID, the coordinating function of an epidemiologist, and the gradual involvement of all components of the integrated rescue system, leading to transporting the patient to the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Bulovka University Hospital in Prague. Activation of the Ministry of Health and the National Institute of Public Health aims to arrange HCID diagnosis in a laboratory abroad. An integral part of the measures is carrying out proper disinfection at the outbreak site and treating contacts with the HCID. Keywords: high consequence infectious diseases, outbreak, contact.