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- Title
Iatrogenic Blood-borne Viral Infections in Refugee Children from War and Transition Zones.
- Authors
Goldwater, Paul N.
- Abstract
Pediatric infectious disease clinicians in industrialized countries may encounter iatrogenically transmitted HIV, hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus infections in refugee children from Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. The consequences of political collapse and/ civil war--work migration, prostitution, intravenous drug use, defective public health resources, and poor access to good medical care--all contribute to the spread of blood-borne viruses. Inadequate infection control practices by medical establishments can lead to iatrogenic infection of children. Summaries of 4 cases in refugee children in Australia are a salient reminder of this problem.
- Subjects
IATROGENIC diseases in children; BLOODBORNE infections; VIRAL diseases in children; CHILDREN &; war; HEALTH of refugee children; COMMUNICABLE diseases in children
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2013, Vol 19, Issue 6, p892
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3201/eid1906.120806