Risk of occupational exposure to potentially infectious nonhuman primate materials and to simian immunodeficiency virus

Journal of Medical Primatology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 233-240

  Sotir, Mark ^a   Switzer, William ^b   Schable, Charles ^b   Schmitt, James ^c   Vitek, Charles ^b   Khabbaz, Rima F ^b,d  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES; SIMIAE; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BITES AND STINGS; BLOOD; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EQUIPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INJURY; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; MONKEY DISEASE; MUCOSA; NEEDLESTICK INJURY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATHOGENICITY; PREVALENCE; PRIMATE; RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; SKIN; STATISTICS; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BITES AND STINGS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; NEEDLESTICK INJURIES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PRIMATES; RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMIAN ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; SKIN;

EID: 0031240985     PISSN: 00472565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0684.1997.tb00217.x     Document Type: Article

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