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Abstract
This is a case report of HIV infection in a nursing staff in Kolkata. She got the infection through needle stick injury while transferring blood from a syringe to specimen collection tube without taking any precaution and no post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) was advised. This is the first documentation of transmission of HIV infection in a worker engaged in health care delivery system in Bengal.Entities:
Year: 2001 PMID： 17664805
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Indian J Med Microbiol ISSN： 0255-0857 Impact factor: 0.985