Risk of rabies infection and adverse effects of postexposure prophylaxis in healthcare workers and other patient contacts exposed to a rabies virus-infected lung transplant recipient

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 513-518

  Mattner, Frauke ^a,c   Henke Gendo, Cornelia ^b   Martens, Andreas ^c   Drosten, Christian ^d   Schulz, Thomas F ^b   Heim, Albert ^b   Suerbaum, Sebastian ^a   Kuhn, Sabine ^c   Bruderek, Juliane ^a   Gastmeier, Petra ^a   Strueber, Martin ^c  

^a Hospital Epidemiology   (Germany)

^b Institute of Virology   (Germany)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^d BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RABIES IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RABIES VACCINE;

ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CHILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; FATIGUE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALAISE; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARESTHESIA; PROPHYLAXIS; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; VOMITING;

CHEMOPREVENTION; CONTACT TRACING; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTERVIEWS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PATIENT ISOLATION; PREGNANCY; RABIES; RABIES VACCINES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPUTUM; TRANSPLANTS; VACCINATION;

EID: 34249276323     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/513614     Document Type: Article

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