Infection control in jails and prisons

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1047-1055

  Bick, Joseph A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b California Medical Facility   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METICILLIN;

ECTOPARASITE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HAIRDRESSER; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; LAUNDRY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISON; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TUBERCULOSIS; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HUMANS; PRISONS;

EID: 34848916976     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/521910     Document Type: Review

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