Emerging zoonotic viral infections of occupational health importance

Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2019, Pages

  Vonesch, Nicoletta ^a   Binazzi, Alessandra ^a   Bonafede, Michela ^a   Melis, Paola ^a   Ruggieri, Anna ^b   Iavicoli, Sergio ^a   Tomao, Paola ^a  

^a Italian Workers' Compensation Authority   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever; Emerging viruses; Hepatitis E; Infections; Occupational exposure; West Nile Virus disease; Workers; Workplace

Indexed keywords

ABATTOIR WORKER; ACUTE HEPATITIS; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; FOOD POISONING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEPATITIS E; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SOLDIER; TICK; VETERINARIAN; VIRUS INFECTION; WATER BORNE DISEASE; WEST NILE VIRUS; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CRIMEAN-CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; IMMUNOLOGY; META ANALYSIS; PUBLISHING; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS, CRIMEAN-CONGO; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PUBLICATION BIAS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; WEST NILE VIRUS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 85064959238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2049632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/femspd/ftz018     Document Type: Article

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