Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare
The Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Health Care provide evidence-based recommendations about the critical aspects of infection prevention and control, focusing on core principles and priority areas for action. All health service organisations should consider the risk of transmission of infection and implement these recommendations according to their specific setting and circumstances.
There is a known issue with the display of Table A2.4 Use of transmission-based precautions in the PDF version of the guidelines. A PDF version of this table can be downloaded here or viewed in the HTML version of the Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Health Care on the NHMRC website that is available on the MAGICapp platform.
V11.27, which was published on 8 April 2026, includes an update to:
- Section 6.4 “Type and duration of precautions for specific infections and conditions”, Table A2.5 with revised recommendations for diphtheria and new recommendations for Nipah virus.
For complete details of the updates in April 2026, see Section 11. Amendments to the Guidelines.
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