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Prevention of HBV, HCV & HIV
Blood-borne virus transmission in healthcare and how to prevent it: the routes between patient and healthcare worker in both directions, the factors that raise risk, and the precautions and prophylaxis that follow.
What this lecture covers
- Background and transmission in health care
- Patient-to-healthcare-worker transmission
- Hepatitis B virus and the principal modes of nosocomial spread
- Hepatitis C virus
- Human immunodeficiency virus and the factors that increase risk
- Healthcare-worker-to-patient transmission
- Patient-to-patient transmission
- Universal precautions, vaccination and post-exposure prophylaxis
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