The prevalence of allergy to laboratory animals (LAA) was investigated in laboratory technicians and animal keepers. In a questionnaire 41 of 101 technicians reported symptoms provoked by work with laboratory animals. On clinical investigation 30 were found to have symptoms and signs related to contact with animals, and allergy was confirmed by radioallergosorbent tests (RAST) and skin tests in...

The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in a sample of Taiwanese healthcare workers. Two thousand thirty-four hospital employees, 30 yr of age and older, were recruited and underwent physical examinations and laboratory testing in December 2003. The study subjects were classified into four job categories, i.e., physicians, nursing staff, medical te...

Introduction: Biomedical waste is any unwanted residual matter arising from the hospital and other health care settings. Biomedical waste management means a systematic way of disposing the health care waste. Lab Technicians involve in segregation, storage, transportation and disposal. Objective: To assess the knowledge and practice of biomedical waste management and to determine the effectivene...

1824 serum samples collected from employees of four hospitals, 538 from inpatients of one of the hospitals, and 352 from healthy inhabitants (control) of a town near one of the hospitals were surveyed for antibody to adult T-cell leukemia-associated antigen (anti-ATLA). Overall prevalence was 6.3 % for the hospital employees, 16.0 % for the inpatients, and 12.2 % for the control. Office workers...

Five laboratory technicians accidentally ingested sodium azide, in quantities varying from 20 to 80 mg, in tea made from distilled water kept in a laboratory. Four had short-lived symptoms of dizziness, pounding heart, and faintness, while another developed a picture of myocardial ischaemia. He had further episodes of chest pains necessitating admission to hospital. These later symptoms were th...

objectives: clinical laboratory health care workers can become infected through their occupation with blood-borne pathogens by percutanous injuries and mucocutaneous blood contacts such as cuts, needle sticks, splashes to mucous membranes or other body injuries. the purpose of this study was to determine the seroprevalence of, hepatitis c virus (hcv), and some of the risk factors in medical lab...

Increasing concern about the role of the psychosocial environment at work in shaping health among workers has been noted during the last few decades . The demandcontrol-support theory and the effortreward imbalance theory have been the most commonly used theoretical frameworks that explained the effects of psychosocial work environment on physiological and psychological health reactions among w...

SETTING Designated microscopy centres (DMC) and additional microscopy centres (AMC) performing sputum acid-fast bacilli (AFB) microscopy, the District TB Centre (DTC) and a reference laboratory (RL). OBJECTIVES To ascertain the feasibility of adopting lot sampling of AFB smears and to assess the performance of MCs employing Senior Tuberculosis Laboratory Supervisors (STLS) with no knowledge a...