Surveillance of HIV exposure and postexposure prophylaxis among health care workers in Greece

Public Health Nursing

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 337-342

  Konte, Vasileia ^b   Nikolopoulos, Georgios ^b   Raftopoulos, Vasilios ^a,b,c   Pylli, Magda ^b   Tsiara, Chrissa ^b   Makri, Efraxia ^b   Paraskeva, Dimitra ^b  

^a Hellenic Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention ^*  (Greece)

^b Hellenic Centre for Infectious Diseases Control   (Greece)

^c Greek Military Nursing Academy   (Greece)

Author keywords

Health professionals; HIV postexposure prophylaxis; Infection control; Occupational HIV exposure

Indexed keywords

ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT;

ARTICLE; BLOODBORNE BACTERIUM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34249866207     PISSN: 07371209     EISSN: 15251446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1446.2007.00642.x     Document Type: Article

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