Multiple outbreaks of hepatitis B virus infection related to assisted monitoring of blood glucose among residents of assisted living facilities - Virginia, 2009-2011

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 61, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 339-343

  McIntosh, Yeatoe G ^a   Powell, Timothy A ^a   Tipple, Margaret ^a   Utah, Okey ^a   Watson, Jessica R ^a   Myrick West, Angela M ^a   Moorman, Anne C ^b   Khudyakov, Yury E ^b   Drobeniuc, Jan ^b   Xu, Fujie ^b   Wise, Matthew E ^c   Patel, Priti R ^c   Bender, Thomas J ^d  

^a VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

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

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY; BLOOD; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING; NEEDLESTICK INJURY; NOTE; UNITED STATES;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PROFESSIONAL-TO-PATIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NEEDLESTICK INJURIES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; VIRGINIA;

EID: 84862017898     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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