Transmission of hepatitis B virus from an orthopedic surgeon with a high viral load

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 218-224

  Enfield, Kyle B ^a,b   Sharapov, Umid ^c   Hall, Keri K ^a,d   Leiner, John ^d   Berg, Carl L ^d   Xia, Guo Liang ^c   Thompson, Nicola D ^c   Ganova Raeva, Lilia ^c   Sifri, Costi D ^a,d  

^a Office of Hospital Epidemiology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

hepatitis B virus; reverse exposure; transmission

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENOME; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLESTICK INJURIES; ORTHOPEDICS; PHYLOGENY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 84871807415     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis869     Document Type: Article

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