Hepatitis B outbreak associated with a hematology-oncology office practice in New Jersey, 2009

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 663-670

  Greeley, Rebecca D ^a,b   Semple, Shereen ^b   Thompson, Nicola D ^c   High, Patricia ^d   Rudowski, Ellen ^b   Handschur, Elizabeth ^b   Xia, Guo Liang ^c   Ganova Raeva, Lilia ^c   Crawford, Jennifer ^d   Robertson, Corwin ^b   Tan, Christina ^b   Montana, Barbara ^b  

^a Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists ^*  (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SENIOR SERVICES   (United States)

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

^d Ocean County Health Department   (United States)

Author keywords

bloodborne pathogen; Cancer; health careassociated infection; infection control breaches; injection safety

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE FINDING; CATHETER; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HEPATITIS B; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INJECTION; INTERVIEW; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PHLEBOTOMY; PHYLOGENY; UNITED STATES; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INJECTIONS; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEW JERSEY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICIANS' OFFICES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 80053564532     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: 15273296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2010.11.011     Document Type: Article

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