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Awareness of blood-borne infections and burden of occupational exposures to blood and body fluids among health care personnel in a tertiary care teaching hospital

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Occupational exposures (OEs) to blood and body fluids (BBFs) pose significant risk of transmission of blood-borne infections (BBIs) to health care personnel (HCP) and are grossly underreported. We aimed to study the awareness of BBIs and their prevention, burden of OEs, as...

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Autores principales: Swetharani, Vinod, K. V., Hamide, Abdoul, Dutta, Tarun K., Harichandrakumar, K. T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5384392/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28446839
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5278.203140