Manual of Clinical Microbiology, Volume 1Includes information on infection detection and prevention and control, diagnostic technologies, bacteriology, antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, and antiparasitic agents and susceptibility test methods, virology, mycology, and parasitology. |
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... risk for contracting infection from a patient , or in cases of laboratory workers ( LWs ) , from a patient's specimen ( 3 ) . Laboratories in the United States employ approximately 500,000 LWs who are at occupational risk of exposure to ...
... risk for contracting infection from a patient , or in cases of laboratory workers ( LWs ) , from a patient's specimen ( 3 ) . Laboratories in the United States employ approximately 500,000 LWs who are at occupational risk of exposure to ...
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... risk , since research animals such as sheep may be asymptomatic carriers of Coxiella burnetii . As shown with Brucella species , aerosol transmission of C. burnetii may cause small Q fever epidem- ics among LWs in the same facility ( 45 ) ...
... risk , since research animals such as sheep may be asymptomatic carriers of Coxiella burnetii . As shown with Brucella species , aerosol transmission of C. burnetii may cause small Q fever epidem- ics among LWs in the same facility ( 45 ) ...
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... risk during a defined period to the overall number of people in the population at risk ( the denominator ) . Ratio of the number of new cases of device - related infection in a specified population at risk during a defined period to the ...
... risk during a defined period to the overall number of people in the population at risk ( the denominator ) . Ratio of the number of new cases of device - related infection in a specified population at risk during a defined period to the ...
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