Risk of HIV and other blood-borne infections in the cardiac setting: Patient-to-provider and provider-to-patient transmission

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 946, Issue , 2001, Pages 291-309

  Puro, Vincenzo ^a   De Carli, Gabriella ^a   Scognamiglio, Paola ^a   Porcasi, Rolando ^a   Ippolito, Giuseppe ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES L SPALLANZANI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blood borne infections; Health care workers; Occupational exposures; Provider to patient transmission

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORONARY CARE UNIT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; ITALY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SEROCONVERSION; STERNOTOMY; SUTURING METHOD; THORAX SURGERY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

DNA VIRUSES; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0035194415     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2001.tb03918.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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