Patient to patient transmission of hepatitis B virus: A systematic review of reports on outbreaks between 1992 and 2007

BMC Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Lanini, Simone ^a   Lauria, Francesco N ^a   Fusco, Francesco M ^a   Nisii, Carla ^a   Ippolito, Giuseppe ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES L SPALLANZANI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD SAMPLING; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATITIS B; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFECTION CONTROL; MULTIPLE DRUG DOSE; NURSING HOME; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SURGICAL WARD; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNITED STATES; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMORBIDITY; CROSS INFECTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; NEOPLASM; STATISTICS;

COMORBIDITY; CROSS INFECTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EUROPE; HEPATITIS B; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 65649098653     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-7-15     Document Type: Review

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