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Alternative Title:
Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:
Goldwater, Paul N. ;
Description:
Pediatric infectious disease clinicians in industrialized countries may encounter iatrogenically transmitted HIV, hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus infections in refugee children from Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. The consequences of political collapse and/or civil war-work migration, prostitution, intravenous drug use, defective public health resources, and poor access to good medical care-all contribute to the spread of blood-borne viruses. Inadequate infection control practices by medical establishments can lead to iatrogenic infection of children. Summaries of 4 cases in refugee children in Australia are a salient reminder of this problem.
Subject:
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Africa
Australia
Blood-Borne Pathogens
Child
Child, Preschool
Children
Female
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis B Virus
Hepatitis C
Hepatitis C Virus
HIV
HIV Infections
Humans
Iatrogenic
Infections
Male
Pathogenesis
Refugees
Synopsis
Transfusions
Virus Diseases
Viruses
War
War

Source:
Emerg Infect Dis. 19(6):892-898.
Document Type:
Journal Article ;
Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:5fa288a8542a6e78dcb4983d7451af55181a2bb3285ac944c144f64e3ee777a7
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