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Horizontal transmission of hiv infection between two siblings
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 1986-09-20. It has received 101 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Horizontal transmission.read more
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Updated U.S. Public Health Service guidelines for the management of occupational exposures to HIV and recommendations for postexposure prophylaxis.
TL;DR: In this paper, the U.S. Public Health Service (USPS) recommended HIV post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) regimens have been changed.
Antiretroviral Postexposure Prophylaxis After Sexual, Injection-Drug Use, or Other Nonoccupational Exposure to HIV in the United States
TL;DR: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Working Group on Non Occupational Postexposure Prophylaxis (nPEP) made the following recommendations for the United States as mentioned in this paper.
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Management of occupational exposures to blood-borne viruses.
TL;DR: Post-exposure care is reviewed for the three blood-borne pathogens that are most commonly involved in occupational transmission — hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
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Risk of human immunodeficiency virus transmission from heterosexual adults with transfusion-associated infections.
TL;DR: Although most husbands and wives remained uninfected despite repeated sexual contact without protection, some acquired infection after only a few contacts, consistent with an as yet unexplained biologic variation in transmissibility or susceptibility.
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Dog, cat, and human bites: A review
TL;DR: It is shown that human bites occurring anywhere other than the hand present no more of a risk for infection than any other type of mammalian bite, and the increased incidence of serious infections and complications associated with human bites to the hand warrants their consideration and management in three different categories.