The study aimed to assess the trend in acceptance and characteristics of acceptors of female sterilization between January 1999 and December 2006 at the University of Nigeria Teaching IHospital, linugu, South-Eastern Nigeria. There were a total of 20,485 new clients, with 212 (1.0%) accepting sterilization between January 1999 and December 2006. There was an initial rise in acceptance from 0.4%...

as powerful antimalarial agents. The work carried out in the School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta, on the action of these drugs on the Indian strains of malaria parasites is in accord with findings obtained in other parts of the world. Plasmoquin has been tried by a large number of workers, and in India, Napier, Butcher and Das Gupta (1932) used it with success in their field experiments. Ateb...

Affiliations: Division of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, German Center for Infection Research, Clinical Tuberculosis Center, Borstel, Germany. Department I of Internal Medicine, Clinical Trials Centre Cologne, Centre for Integrated Oncology Köln Bonn, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases, German Centre for Infection Researc...

Although numerous individual case reports and a few instances of institutional outbreaks of laboratory-acquired infections had appeared in the literature, the magnitude of this problem as it relates to the occupational health of laboratory workers did not become evident until the results of an extensive survey conducted in 1950 became available. Prior to that time only an occasional report conc...

Hepatitis B immunization for health care workers is common policy in many countries where they constitute a particular at risk group. A seroepidemiological study of hepatitis B virus (HBV) in Fiji health care workers was conducted to determine whether this occupational group (or subgroups thereof) were at higher risk of infection than the general Fiji population. The purpose of this study was t...

BACKGROUND Health care workers especially nurses in developing countries are at serious risk for infection from blood-borne pathogens particularly hepatitis B virus (HBV) - because of the high prevalence of such pathogens in many poorer regions of the world. Employers are required to establish exposure-control plans that include post exposure follow-up for their employees and to comply with inc...

Two patients with no exposure to gardening compost had related Legionella longbeachae infections in Quebec, Canada. Epidemiologic investigation and laboratory results from patient and soil samples identified the patients' workplace, a metal recycling plant, as the likely source of infection, indicating a need to suspect occupational exposure for L. longbeachae infections.

BACKGROUND Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) is the main causative agent of bovine zoonotic tuberculosis. The aim of this systematic review is to highlight the occupational exposure to bovine tuberculosis due to M. bovis. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS A computer based literature search was carried out to identify papers published between January 2006 and March 2017. "PubMed, Cochrane Library an...

On 26 July, 1994, the local agricultural employment office notified the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit that a member of a work crew had suffered diarrheal illness following employment at a turkey farm on 18 July. The employment office also reported that two members from the same crew had been unable to work because of illness. Given this information, the Health Unit requested a list of ...

Health care workers especially medical students are at risk of acquiring infection through occupational exposure. Few studies have reported on medical students’ knowledge of standard precautions and sharp injuries and noted lack of adequate knowledge of standard precautions. To identify deficiencies which could be addressed by education and training, it is useful to measure KAP of medical stude...