The aim of the study: Show the importance of the science of gastroenterology in the study of the gastrointestinal tract, digestive system; the urgency of the problem of the healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), in particular, of the intestinal bacterial infection C. difficile and intestinal rota- and norovirus hospital-acquired infections; the influence of the risk factors, antibiotics, seasonality, stays at a medical facility, the state of the immune system of the human body on the occurrence of the outbreaks and the spread of the intestinal HAIs; the importance of the infection prevention and control, the system of epidemiological surveillance, vaccination in preventing the occurrence and the development of HAIs.
Brief summary: This article examines the dependence of the occurrence of the intestinal HAIs on the type of the medical facility, age, seasonality, type of pathogen, mechanisms and ways of spreading of the causative agents of HAIs, immunity, compliance with the sanitary-hygienic and antiepidemic regimes in a medical facility.
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