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Bloodborne Viral Infections in Patients Attending an Emergency Room in Mexico City: Estimate of Seroconversion Probability in Healthcare Workers After an Occupational Exposure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Midori Kato-Maeda ,
Samuel Ponce-de-León ,
Jose Sifuentes-Osornio ,
M. Sigfrido Rangel-Frausto ,
Juan Calva-Mercado ,
Lourdes Infante-Suarez ,
Fernando Morales Villareal  and
Sergio Ponce-de-León
Midori Kato-Maeda
Affiliation:
Hospital Epidemiology Division and Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición “Salvador Zubirán,”, Mexico City, Mexico
Samuel Ponce-de-León*
Affiliation:
Hospital Epidemiology Division and Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición “Salvador Zubirán,”, Mexico City, Mexico
Jose Sifuentes-Osornio
Affiliation:
Hospital Epidemiology Division and Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición “Salvador Zubirán,”, Mexico City, Mexico
M. Sigfrido Rangel-Frausto
Affiliation:
Hospital Epidemiology Division and Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición “Salvador Zubirán,”, Mexico City, Mexico
Juan Calva-Mercado
Affiliation:
Hospital Epidemiology Division and Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición “Salvador Zubirán,”, Mexico City, Mexico
Lourdes Infante-Suarez
Affiliation:
Hospital Epidemiology Division and Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición “Salvador Zubirán,”, Mexico City, Mexico
Fernando Morales Villareal
Affiliation:
Hospital Epidemiology Division and Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición “Salvador Zubirán,”, Mexico City, Mexico
Sergio Ponce-de-León
Affiliation:
Hospital Epidemiology Division and Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición “Salvador Zubirán,”, Mexico City, Mexico
*
Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición “Salvador Zubirán,”, División de Epidemiología Hospitalaria, Vasco de Quiroga 15, Tlalpan, México DF 14000
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Abstract

The frequency of hepatitis C (HCV), hepatitis B (HBV), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV) I/II was determined in the emergency room of a teaching hospital. Of 909 patients, 19% had at least one infection; 7.8% had HCV, 6.9% HBV, 3.3% HIV, and 2.8% HTLV I/II. The probability that a healthcare worker would have an accident with an infected patient and seroconvert was 4.99 to 24.9 per 100,000 venipunctures for HBV, 5.6 to 8.4 for HCV, and 0.12-0.16 for HIV in our emergency room.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 21 , Issue 9 , September 2000 , pp. 600 - 602
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2000

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