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Blood-borne pathogens routine surveillance system report.

open access: yesCanada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada, 2003
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Hemophilia Therapy and Blood-Borne Pathogen Risk

Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis, 2006
For a brief period, modern medical science was considered to have relegated infectious disease to that of a minor clinical challenge. However, several infectious diseases have emerged or re-emerged in recent years, raising epidemiological concerns, as well as issues over the availability of effective measures of control and treatment. Invariably, these
Richard, Knight   +3 more
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Blood-borne pathogens and nosocomial infections

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2002
Guidelines to prevent the transmission of blood-borne infections have evolved rapidly since the recognition that "serum hepatitis" could be transmitted to health care personnel via percutaneous exposure to blood. The HIV epidemic focused renewed attention on the problem of protecting health care personnel, culminating in "standard precautions" for ...
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Blood-Borne Pathogens among Firefighters andEmergency Medical Technicians

Prehospital Emergency Care, 2005
Firefighters and emergency medical services (EMS) personnel have the potential for occupational exposures to blood, which increases their risk for occupational blood-borne infection. To address this concern, the authors conducted a literature review of occupational blood exposures, the seroprevalence of blood-borne pathogens among these workers, and ...
Winifred L, Boal   +2 more
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The Prevalence of Blood-Borne Pathogens in Maxillofacial Trauma Patients

Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, 2020
Background: Blood-borne pathogen infections (BPIs), caused by the human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis C and hepatitis B viruses pose an occupational hazard to healthcare workers. Facial trauma reconstruction surgeons may be at elevated risk because of routine use of sharps, and a higher than average incidence of BPIs in the
Selim G, Gebran   +9 more
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