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Post-exposure prophylaxis during pandemic outbreaks [PDF]

BMC Medicine, 2009
Background With the rise of the second pandemic wave of the novel influenza A (H1N1) virus in the current season in the Northern Hemisphere, pandemic plans are being carefully re-evaluated, particularly for the strategic use of antiviral drugs.
Fisman David N, Röst Gergely, Bowman Christopher S, Moghadas Seyed M, Wu Jianhong   +4 more
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Perceived preparedness and educational gaps in post-exposure prophylaxis among dental students in Saudi Arabia: a nationwide survey [PDF]

BMC Oral Health
Background Dental professionals are at increased occupational risk of exposure to blood-borne pathogens such as human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus.
Bassel Tarakji, Anas Alsalhani, Faisal Mehsen Alali, Abdulrahman Farhan Almukhalfi, Mohammad Hamad Alkanhal, Ghadah Saad Alazmi, Afra Hamoud Alshammari, Sultan Abdulaziz Altowairqi, Anwar Abdalrhman Alharbi, Omar Hassan M Alyzid Asiri, Abdullah Saad Alqahtani, Abdullah Alshehri, Abdullah Bin Nabhan, Faisal S. Alhedyan, Khalid Ayidh Alqahtani, Mohammed A S Abuelqomsan, Mohammed Sadeg A. Al-Awar, Mohammad Zakaria Nassani   +17 more
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Occupational exposure to HIV and use of post-exposure prophylaxis in a general hospital in North Central, Nigeria [PDF]

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Health, 2013
Occupational exposures to blood borne pathogens including HIV have been well studied. However, limited studies exist about the utilization of post exposure prophylaxis and follow-up in Nigeria The objectives of the study were to describe the ...
Abiola O Olaleye, Olorunfemi A Ogundele, Babatunde I Awokola, Oladele S Olatunya, Omolara A Olaleye, Titilope Adeyanju, Akinlolu G Omisore   +6 more
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Rabies antibody levels in pregnant women and their newborns after rabies post-exposure prophylaxis

Iranian Journal of Reproductive Medicine, 2012
Background: Rabies is a fatal infectious disease and rabies post-exposure prophylaxis is the method of choice for prevention of human rabies.Case series: We report rabies antibody levels in cord blood and also in serum of pregnant women who were bitten ...
Ahmad Fayaz, Susan Simani, Vida Fallahian, Ali Eslamifar, Mahboob Hazrati, Firoozeh Farahtaj, Nader Howaizi, Peivand Biglari   +7 more
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Impact of Educational Intervention Measures on Knowledge regarding HIV/ Occupational Exposure and Post Exposure Prophylaxis among Final Year Nursing Students of a Tertiary Care Hospital in Central India [PDF]

Online Journal of Health & Allied Sciences, 2010
Amongst the different Health Care Personnel nurses are at a greater risk of being accidentally exposed to HIV and other Blood Borne Pathogens. The present study was conducted among 50 final year nursing students of a Medical College Hospital to assess ...
Shruti Jaiswal, Sona Soni, Siddharth Singh Baghel, Satish Saroshe, Khatri AK, Sanjay Dixit, Sunil Singh Sengar   +6 more
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Rabies can be a disease of puppyhood

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2022
This brief report documents an interesting and a rare case of 10 week old male puppy who suddenly showed a change in his behavior (irritable, agitated, anorexic, and refusing feeds), bitten six humans, and was laboratory-confirmed as died due to rabies ...
Monil Singhai, Rekha Jaiswal, Cordelia Siddiqui, Simmi Tiwari, Naveen Gupta, Manju Bala, Sujeet K Singh   +6 more
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Knowledge of PEP and PrEP among people living with HIV/aids in Brazil

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) are key to preventing sexual transmission of HIV, whose sexual partners are at high risk of acquiring HIV.
Laelson Rochelle Milanês Sousa, Henrique Ciabotti Elias, Nilo Martinez Fernandes, Elucir Gir, Renata Karina Reis   +4 more
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Data linkage to evaluate the long-term risk of HIV infection in individuals seeking post-exposure prophylaxis. [PDF]

, 2021
Evidence on the long-term risk of HIV infection in individuals taking HIV post-exposure prophylaxis remains limited. In this retrospective data linkage study, we evaluate the occurrence of HIV infection in 975 individuals who sought post-exposure ...
Heinrich, Henriette, Swiss HIV Cohort Study, Marzel, Alex, Günthard, Huldrych F, Scherrer, Alexandra, Kouyos, Roger D, Schmidlin, Kurt, Conen, Anna, Seneghini, Marco, Fehr, Jan S, Hauser, Christoph, Hovaguimian, Frédérique, Calmy, Alexandra, Riou, Julien, Spoerri, Adrian, Rampini, Silvana K, Bernasconi, Enos, Cavassini, Matthias, Balakrishna, Suraj, Braun, Dominique L   +19 more
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Determinants of delay in initiation of post exposure prophylaxis for rabies prevention among animal bite cases attending a rural tertiary care hospital of Haryana [PDF]

Healthline, 2022
Introduction : Rabies is a fatal but vaccine-preventable viral disease. Animal bite victims who report in primary and secondary level health care lack some measures which can help in protecting and preventing deaths due to rabies.
Babita, Mahavir Singh, S K Jha, Anita Punia, Sanjeet Singh   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Post-Exposure prophylaxis studies (N = 2).

, 2022
Post-Exposure prophylaxis studies (N = 2).
Mathias Lalika (12359774), Rena C. Patel (3387779), David M. Koelle (8138436), Aldina Mesic (12359768), Emahlea K. Jackson (12359771)   +4 more
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