Patient-to-patient transmission of bloodborne pathogens in health care: The price and perils of progress?

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 294-296

  Henderson, David K ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b Building 10 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOODBORNE BACTERIUM; BRONCHOSCOPE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISINFECTION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFECTION CONTROL; NOTE; NURSE PRACTITIONER; PATIENT CARE; PROSTATE BIOPSY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; RISK FACTORS; STERILIZATION;

EID: 40949099193     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/587440     Document Type: Note

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