Health care worker-to-patient transmission of hepatitis C virus in the health care setting: Many questions and few answers

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 272-275

  Raggam, Reinhard B ^a   Rossmann, Angelika M ^a   Salzer, Helmut J F ^b   Stauber, Rudolf E ^a   Kessler, Harald H ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Health care workers; Hepatitis C virus; Prevention; Transmission

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ANTIBODY SCREENING; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MANDATORY TESTING; NEEDLESTICK INJURY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCREENING; SEROLOGY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

CROSS INFECTION; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HEALTH FACILITIES; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PROFESSIONAL-TO-PATIENT;

EID: 67649784538     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2009.04.015     Document Type: Review

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