BACKGROUND: Approximately 3 million health care workers (HCWs) experience
percutaneous exposure to bloodborne viruses (BBVs) each year. This results in an …

Healthcare workers have increased chance of acquiring bloodborne pathogens through
occupational exposure in developing countries due to a combination of increased risk and …

Abstract Background Health care workers (HCWs) are at increased risk of being infected
with blood-borne pathogens. Aims To evaluate risk of occupational exposure to blood-borne …

Abstract Background Hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C (HCV) are significant global public
health challenges with health care workers (HCWs) at especially high risk of exposure in …

Abstract Background Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) may progress to serious consequences and
increase dramatically beyond endemic dimensions that transmits to or from health care …

In recent years, transmission of bloodborne pathogens (BBPs) has emerged as an important
occupational hazard for health care workers (HCWs). Information on occupational …

Exposure to blood-borne pathogens poses a serious risk to health care workers (HCWs). We
review the risk and management of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus …

Objective: This study presents the results of a 5-year surveillance program involving the
prospective follow-up of health-care workers (HCWs) in the Veneto region of Italy exposed to …

Exposures to blood-borne pathogens pose a serious occupational threat to health care
workers. Safer needle devices for performing phlebotomy and other procedures and …

THERE HAS BEEN CONSIDERABLE DEBATE ABOUT THE NEED for mandatory serologic
testing of individuals who are the source of bloodborne pathogen exposures in health care …