Laboratory-acquired dengue virus infection by needlestick injury: a case report, South Korea, 2014
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Laboratory-acquired dengue virus infection by needlestick injury: a case report, South Korea, 2014.
BACKGROUND Dengue fever is one of the most dominant vector-borne diseases, putting approximately 3.9 billion people at risk worldwide. While it is generally vector-borne, other routes of transmission such as needlestick injury are possible. Laboratory workers can be exposed to dengue virus transcutaneously by needlestick injury. This is the first case, to our knowledge, of dengue virus infectio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2052-4374
DOI: 10.1186/s40557-016-0104-5