title: Blood and body fluid exposures in health-care settings: risk reduction practices and postexposure prophylaxis for health-care workers.
abstract: This review of last year's literature on blood-borne pathogens (= pathogenic microorganisms that are found in human blood) focuses on hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HCV), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the most common pathogens, despite the fact that other microorganisms may cause blood-borne diseases as well. Since the prevention of blood-borne diseases is something that, in the past, has gotten a lot of attention and by now is fully integrated in all safety structures in the U.S., the recent literatures mainly have been come from resource-limited/developing countries and Europe (which, in the definition of the financial word at the present time, in some parts overlap).
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Inci
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Narin
authors.forename: Habip
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gedik
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Voss