Failure of HIV postexposure prophylaxis after a work-related needlestick injury

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 646-647

  Camacho Ortiz, Adrian ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DR JOSÉ ELEUTERIO GONZÁLEZ   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATAZANAVIR; EFAVIRENZ; EMTRICITABINE; LAMIVUDINE; LOPINAVIR PLUS RITONAVIR; TENOFOVIR; ZIDOVUDINE;

ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; DENGUE; DIARRHEA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FATIGUE; FEVER; GENOTYPE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; LETTER; MALE; MYALGIA; NEEDLESTICK INJURY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; POST EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; MALE; NEEDLESTICK INJURIES; OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES; THUMB;

EID: 84860679524     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/665718     Document Type: Letter

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