Investigation of viral hepatitis infections possibly associated with health-care delivery - New York City, 2008-2011

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 61, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 333-338

  Bornschlegel, Katherine ^a   Dentinger, Catherine ^a   Layton, Marci ^a   Balter, Sharon ^a   France, Anne Marie ^b  

^a NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTRAVENOUS ANESTHETIC AGENT; PROPOFOL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; CASE REPORT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EQUIPMENT; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; RECYCLING; UNITED STATES;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT REUSE; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; PROPOFOL;

EID: 84862013490     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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