Post-exposere prophylaxis: What every health care worker should know

Medical Journal Armed Forces India

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 250-253

  Kapila, Ketoki ^a   Gupta, R M ^a   Chopra, G S ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Health care workers; Post exposure prophylaxis

Indexed keywords

AMPRENAVIR PHOSPHATE; ATAZANAVIR; DIDANOSINE; EFAVIRENZ; EMTRICITABINE; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; INDINAVIR; LAMIVUDINE; LAMIVUDINE PLUS ZIDOVUDINE; LOPINAVIR PLUS RITONAVIR; RITONAVIR; SAQUINAVIR; STAVUDINE; TENOFOVIR; ZIDOVUDINE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; DIARRHEA; FATIGUE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; NAUSEA; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; VACCINATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VOMITING;

EID: 50449084954     PISSN: 03771237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-1237(08)80106-2     Document Type: Article

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