Postexposure interventions to prevent infection with HBV, HCV, or HIV, and tetanus in people wounded during bombings and other mass casualty events-united states, 2008 recommendations of the centers for disease control and prevention and disaster medicine and public health preparedness

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 150-165

  Chapman, Louisa E ^a   Sullivent, Ernest A ^b   Grohskopf, Lisa A ^c   Beltrami, Elise M ^d   Perz, Joseph F ^c   Kretsinger, Katrina ^e   Panlilio, Adelisa L ^d   Thompson, Nicola D ^c   Ehrenberg, Richard L ^f   Gensheimer, Kathleen F ^g   Duchin, Jeffrey S ^h   Kilmarx, Peter H ^c   Hunt, Richard C ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR INJURY PREVENTION AND CONTROL   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^e National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^g Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists   (United States)

^h National Association of County and City Health Official   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD; DISASTER MEDICINE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXPLOSION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INJURY; MASS DISASTER; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RESCUE WORK; TETANUS;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISASTER MEDICINE; EXPLOSIONS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RESCUE WORK; TETANUS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 58749084109     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 193844X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DMP.0b013e318187ac66     Document Type: Article

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