Infective agents in fixed human cadavers: A brief review and suggested guidelines
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Infective agents in fixed human cadavers: a brief review and suggested guidelines.
Cadavers remain a principal teaching tool for anatomists and medical educators teaching gross anatomy. Infectious pathogens in cadavers that present particular risks include Mycobacterium tuberculosis, hepatitis B and C, the AIDS virus HIV, and prions that cause transmissible spongiform encephalopathies such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS). I...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Anatomical Record
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0003-276X
DOI: 10.1002/ar.10143