Hepatitis B outbreak associated with a home health care agency serving multiple assisted living facilities in Texas, 2008-2010

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• Alternative Title:
  Am J Infect Control
• Personal Author:
  Zheteyeva, Yenlik A. ; Tosh, Pritish ; Patel, Priti R. ; Martinez, Diana ; Kilborn, Cindy ; Awosika-Olumo, Debo ; Khuwaja, Salma ; Ibrahim, Syed ; Ryder, Anthony ; Tohme, Rania A. ; Khudyakov, Yury ; Thai, Hong ; Drobeniuc, Jan ; Heseltine, Gary ; Guh, Alice Y.
• Description:
  We investigated a multifacility outbreak of acute hepatitis B virus infection involving 21 residents across 10 assisted living facilities in Texas during the period January 2008 through July 2010. Epidemiologic and laboratory data suggested that these infections belonged to a single outbreak. The only common exposure was receipt of assisted monitoring of blood glucose from the same home health care agency. Improved infection control oversight and training of assisted living facility and home health care agency personnel providing assisted monitoring of blood glucose is needed.
• Subjects:
  Aged Aged, 80 And Over Article Assisted Living Facilities Blood Chemical Analysis Blood Glucose Disease Outbreaks Female Hepatitis B Hepatitis B Virus Home Care Agencies Humans Male Middle Aged

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• Source:
  Am J Infect Control. 42(1):77-81
• Pubmed ID:
  24176604
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6489442
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  Texas
• Volume:
  42
• Issue:
  1
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:408d9af86e562f872563d2ad68f4c17b07522d7e99186fd0f58da99b4cafe70d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/78299/cdc_78299_DS1.pdf
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