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Risk of Hepatitis C Virus Transmission from Patients to Healthcare Workers: A Prospective Observational Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Michael Strasser ,
Elmar Aigner ,
Ilse Schmid ,
Andreas Stadlmayr ,
David Niederseer ,
Wolfgang Patsch  and
Christian Datz
Michael Strasser
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine I, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Elmar Aigner
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine I, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital Oberndorf, Oberndorf, Austria
Ilse Schmid
Affiliation:
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Andreas Stadlmayr
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital Oberndorf, Oberndorf, Austria
David Niederseer
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital Oberndorf, Oberndorf, Austria
Wolfgang Patsch
Affiliation:
Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Christian Datz*
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital Oberndorf, Oberndorf, Austria
*
Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital Oberndorf/Salzburg; Paracelsusstrasse 37, 5110 Oberndorf (c.datz@kh-oberndorf.at)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 34 , Issue 7 , July 2013 , pp. 759 - 761
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2013

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