Ophthalmic Surgery in Prion Diseases

Eleven (1.8%) of 597 patients underwent ophthalmic surgery within 1 month before the onset of prion disease or after the onset. All ophthalmologists reused surgical instruments that had been incompletely sterilized to eliminate infectious prion protein. Ophthalmologists should be aware of prion dise...

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Autores principales: Hamaguchi, Tsuyoshi, Noguchi-Shinohara, Moeko, Nakamura, Yosikazu, Sato, Takeshi, Kitamoto, Tetsuyuki, Mizusawa, Hidehiro, Yamada, Masahito
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2007
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2725820/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17370537
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1301.061004

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2725820/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17370537
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1301.061004

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