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The Management of Health Care Workers' Accidental Parenteral Exposures to Biological Specimens of HIV Seropositive Individuals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Thomas L. Kuhls  and
James D. Cherry
Thomas L. Kuhls
Affiliation:
Departments of Pediatrics and Infection Control, Center for the Health Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California
James D. Cherry*
Affiliation:
Departments of Pediatrics and Infection Control, Center for the Health Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California
*
Department of Pediatrics, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90024
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Abstract

Because of the similarities in the spread of hepatitis B virus and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), health officials have been concerned about the acquisition of HIV infection by health care workers. This concern has led to numerous cross-sectional and prospective cohort studies during the last 3 years to evaluate the risks involved. The risk of occupationally acquired HIV infection has been shown to be considerably less than that of hepatitis B virus infection, however needlestick transmission has occurred.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 8 , Issue 5 , May 1987 , pp. 211 - 214
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1987

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