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CISDOC database
Document ID (ISN) | 48956 |
CIS number |
88-324 |
ISSN - Serial title |
0007-1072 - British Journal of Industrial Medicine |
Year |
1987 |
Convention or series no. |
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Author(s) |
Gestal J.J. |
Title |
Occupational hazards in hospitals: risk of infection |
Bibliographic information |
July 1987, Vol.44, No.7, p.435-442. 154 ref. |
Abstract |
In this review of the risk of infection to hospital staff, attention is drawn to the continuing risk presented by hepatitis B and pulmonary tuberculosis, which are more common than diseases such as typhoid fever, brucellosis, histoplasmosis, whooping cough, infectious gastroenteritis, measles, and parotiditis. Other items considered include the susceptibility of female hospital staff to rubella and the importance of their undergoing screening and vaccination; the risks currently presented by epidemic keratoconjunctivitis and by herpes viruses (herpes simplex, varicella zoster, and cytomegalovirus); and the risk of contracting the new infectious diseases (Legionnaires' disease, Marburg disease, Lassa fever, and the acquired immune deficiency syndrome). |
Descriptors (primary) |
infectious diseases; biological hazards; hospitals |
Descriptors (secondary) |
literature survey; legionellosis; brucellosis; histoplasmosis; infectious hepatitis; vaccination; pulmonary tuberculosis; gastroenteritis; immunodeficiency syndrome; women; epidemic keratoconjunctivitis |
Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
Subject(s) |
Commerce, services, offices
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Broad subject area(s) |
Biological hazards
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Browse category(ies) |
Health care services Viral diseases (other than aids) Biological hazards Mycoses Bacterial and parasitic diseases
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