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- Title
Transmission of Hepatitis B Virus Among Persons Undergoing Blood Glucose Monitoring in Long-Term--Care Facilities -- Mississippi, North Carolina, and Los Angeles County, California, 2003-2004.
- Authors
Webb, R.; Currier, M.; Weir, J.; McNeill, K. M.; Bancroft, E.; Dassey, D.; Maynard, J.; Terashita, D.; Simeonsson, K.; Chelminski, A.; Engel, J.; Perz, J. F.; Fiore, A. E.; Williams, I. T.; Bell, B. P.; Harrington, T.; Wheeler, C.
- Abstract
Describes several outbreaks of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections among residents in long-term care facilities in the U.S. in 2003 and 2004. Recommended practices for preventing patient-to-patient transmission of hepatitis viruses from diabetes-care procedures; Details of performing serological tests on specimens from nursing home residents in Mississippi; Number of HBV infections that occur each year in the U.S.
- Subjects
UNITED States; DISEASE outbreaks; HEPATITIS B virus; NURSING home patients; INFECTIOUS disease transmission; SERODIAGNOSIS
- Publication
MMWR: Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, 2005, Vol 54, Issue 9, p220
- ISSN
0149-2195
- Publication type
Article