Guidance

Gastrointestinal infections: guidance for public health management

Guidance to help professionals in public health and environmental health departments to minimise the risk of transmission of gastrointestinal infections.

Documents

Gastrointestinal infections: recommendations for public health management 2019

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Details

This guidance provides advice on:

  • preventing the spread of gastrointestinal infections
  • how specific diseases are spread
  • risk groups for spread of infections
  • how long to keep people away from school, work or other settings
  • how to take stool samples
  • links to notifiable diseases and health protection regulations

Updates to this page

Published 31 January 2020

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