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ArticleCurrent infectious disease reports2012

Blood and body fluid exposures in health-care settings: risk reduction practices and postexposure prophylaxis for health-care workers.

Inci Narin, Habip Gedik, Andreas Voss

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Article in Current infectious disease reports, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 41% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Inci NarinDepartment of Clinical Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Habip Gedik
Andreas Voss
Canisius-Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis · NLRadboud University Medical Center · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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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PMID23104585
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