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Blood and Body Fluid Exposures in Health-Care Settings: Risk Reduction Practices and Postexposure Prophylaxis for Health-Care Workers

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This review of last year’s literature on blood-borne pathogens (= pathogenic microorganisms that are found in human blood) focuses on hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HCV), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the most common pathogens, despite the fact that other microorganisms may cause blood-borne diseases as well. Since the prevention of blood-borne diseases is something that, in the past, has gotten a lot of attention and by now is fully integrated in all safety structures in the U.S., the recent literatures mainly have been come from resource-limited/developing countries and Europe (which, in the definition of the financial word at the present time, in some parts overlap).

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  1. Department of Clinical Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Inci Narin, Habip Gedik & Andreas Voss

  2. Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey

    Inci Narin

  3. Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Ministry of Health Okmeydanı Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

    Habip Gedik

  4. Department of Clinical Microbiology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Andreas Voss

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Narin, I., Gedik, H. & Voss, A. Blood and Body Fluid Exposures in Health-Care Settings: Risk Reduction Practices and Postexposure Prophylaxis for Health-Care Workers. Curr Infect Dis Rep 14, 607–611 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11908-012-0297-x

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