Occupational infections in health care workers: Prevention and intervention

American Family Physician

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 2291-2300

  Swinker, Marian ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; BCG VACCINE; CHICKENPOX VACCINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; INDINAVIR; INTERFERON; LAMIVUDINE; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; VACCINE; ZIDOVUDINE;

AIRBORNE INFECTION; ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CHICKENPOX; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PERTUSSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

CROSS INFECTION; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030707801     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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