| Document ID (ISN) | 21662 |
| CIS number |
74-1702 |
| Year |
1974 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Grandbesançon Y. |
| Title |
Virus hepatitis B: an occupational disease - Epidemiological and prophylactic study in haemodialysis centres |
| Original title |
Hépatite virale B: maladie professionnelle - Etude épidémiologique et prophylactique dans les centres d'hémodialyse. [in French] |
| Bibliographic information |
Université de Paris VI, Faculté de médecine Pitié - Salpêtrière, Paris, France, 1974. 42p. 27 ref. |
| Abstract |
The first part of this MD thesis is devoted to background information on virus hepatitis as an occupational disease, and to the following aspects: frequency of virus hepatitis B among the staff of haemodialysis units, role of the Australia antigen, modes of transmission. The second part is devoted to medico-social problems: French legislation, absence from work, course of the disease and treatment. Prophylaxis is discussed in one chapter: general hygiene (organisation of working conditions, staff training), preventive measures to cope with antigen-carrying patients and immunisation. Prevention by means of specific immunoglobulins has gone beyond the experimental stage and the manufacture of a vaccine against hepatitis B is at present being studied. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
hospitals; infectious hepatitis |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
literature survey; compensation of occupational diseases; France; Australia antigen; contagion; thesis; serological reactions; length of exposure; statistical evaluation; medical prevention; medical treatment; frequency rates; health engineering |
| Document type |
E - Books, reports, proceedings |
| Subject(s) |
Occupational pathology
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| Broad subject area(s) |
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| Browse category(ies) |
Health care services
Bacterial and parasitic diseases
Viral diseases (other than aids)
Liver diseases
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