Journal
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL
Volume 40, Issue 1, Pages 68-U113Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2011.01.021
Keywords
HIV; HBV; Incidence; Needlestick injury; Sharp injury
Funding
- Kochi Medical School
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21390189, 22590549] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The extent of occupational injuries among health care workers in central Africa, particularly in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is not documented. We sought to determine the incidence of percutaneous injury and exposure to blood and other body fluids in Congolese urban and rural hospitals in the previous year. Our data show high rates of percutaneous injury and exposure to blood and other body fluids, reflecting poor safety conditions for most Congolese health care workers. Crown Copyright (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. All rights reserved.
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