title: Helicobacter pylori infection in surgical personnel.
abstract: Helicobacter pylori can be isolated from oro-gastric secretions. Surgical personnel through their clinical practice are exposed to oro-gastric secretions either directly or in aerosolized form during oro-gastric examination and are at an increased risk of this occupationally acquired infection. The sero-prevalence of Helicobacter pylori antibodies in 70 surgical personnel was examined and found to be higher than a published control group. This may suggest that surgical personnel, through their practice, are at increased risk of infection, which poses important public and occupational health problems and may call for precautionary guidelines in clinical practice to prevent occupational infection and vector carriage.
authors.affiliation: The Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital, London, UK.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Upile
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: East
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Paun
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Battacharyya
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000776:Anesthesiology; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D016481:Helicobacter Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission*; D016480:Helicobacter pylori / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D017758:Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional; D010036:Otolaryngology; D015995:Prevalence; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D016036:Seroepidemiologic Studies; D013043:Specialties, Surgical; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
chemical_list: D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial