Table 4 Employees’ knowledge of infectious diseases and/or pathogens and their paths of infections
Infectionsa | Paths of infection | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Contact/smear infection (faecal/oral) | Droplet infection (aerogenous) | Food and water (alimentary) | Blood (haemato-genous) | Total | |
N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N | |
Conjunctivitis (Adenoviral) | 100 (88.5) | 33 (29.2) | 2 (1.8) | 2 (1.8) | 113 |
Flu (Influenza) | 39 (32.8) | 112 (94.1) | 5 (4.2) | 1 (0.8) | 119 |
Hepatitis (B and C) | 29 (24.4) | 16 (13.4) | 17 (14.3) | 107 (89.9) | 119 |
MRSA | 102 (84.3) | 83 (68.6) | 6 (5.0) | 35 (28.9) | 121 |
Norovirus infection | 96 (81.4) | 53 (44.9) | 39 (33.1) | 5 (4.2) | 118 |
Salmonella infection | 61 (49.6) | 13 (10.6) | 107 (87.0) | 3 (2.4) | 123 |
Lung tuberculosis | 23 (19.7) | 96 (82.1) | 9 (7.7) | 32 (27.4) | 117 |