abstract: current data indicates that the risk of transmilssion of blood-borne pathogens in dental health care settings is low. pre-exposure hepatitis b vaccination and the use of standard precautions to prevent exposure to blood are the most effective strategies for preventing dhcp from occupational infection with hiv, hbv or hcv. dental health care facility should develop a comprehensive writ...

background: the acceptance of hiv testing among patients with tuberculosis (tb) is low in south africa. the aim of this study was to assess the prevalence, associated factors and reasons of non-uptake of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) testing by tuberculosis public primary care patients in three districts, south africa. methods:   in may-october 2011, this cross-sectional survey was conduct...

Estimating and minimizing the maximum power dissipation during testing is an important task in VLSI circuit realization since the power value affects the reliability of the circuits. Therefore during testing a methodology should be adopted to minimize power consumption. Test patterns generated with –D 1 option of ATALANTA contains don’t care bits (x bits). By suitable filling of don’t cares can...

patients and methods we evaluated radiation exposure from initial and downstream testing in a prospectively collected, matched cohort evaluated for cp in the emergency department (ed) with either ccta compared with usual care over a median follow-up of 19.6 months. effective radiation dose was calculated using published conversion factors. results prospective, ecg-triggered acquisition using a ...

introduction: based on the existing studies, measuring serum level of immunoglobulin for making decisions regarding prescription of tetanus prophylaxis seems logical and cost effective. therefore, the present study was done with the aim of evaluating the diagnostic accuracy of tetanus quick stick (tqs) in comparison with elisa method in this regard. methods: the present diagnostic accuracy stud...