Oral health-care workers and HIV infection control practices in Nigeria

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 147-150

  Ogunbodede, E O ^a   Folayan, M O ^a   Adedigba, M A ^a  

^a OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITALS COMPLEX   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; LEGAL ASPECT; MOUTH DISEASE; MOUTH HYGIENE; NIGERIA; SOCIAL ASPECT; WASTE DISPOSAL;

DENTAL CARE FOR CHRONICALLY ILL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL, DENTAL; MALE; MOUTH DISEASES; NIGERIA;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 23944486404     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/0049475054620707     Document Type: Article

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