Occupational risk of hepatitis A infection among health care providers in northeastern Poland

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Grzeszczuk, Anna ^a,b   Sokolewicz Bobrowska, Elzbieta ^a   Chlabicz, Sławomir ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

^b NONE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Disease transmission; Hepatitis A; Patient to professional; Poland

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MALE; NURSE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PHYSICIAN; POLAND; SEROPREVALENCE; WARD;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; POLAND; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 0042971716     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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