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Epidemiology and clinical consequences of occupational exposure to blood and other body fluids in a university hospital in Saudi Arabia

Shireen A. Samargandy, Lujain M. Bukhari, Shaza A. Samargandy, Rawiah S. Bahlas, Eman K. Aldigs, Maha M. Alawi, Nabeela A. Al-Abdullah and Tariq A. Madani
Saudi Medical Journal July 2016, 37 (7) 783-790; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.7.14261
Shireen A. Samargandy
From the Department of Medicine (Samargandy Shireen, Bukhari, Samargandy Shaza, Madani), Faculty of Medicine, the Infection Control and Environmental Health Unit (Bahlas, Alawi, Al-Abdullah, Madani), the Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology (Aldigs, Alawi), Faculty of Medicine, the Department of Public Health (Al-Abdullah), College of Nursing, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Lujain M. Bukhari
From the Department of Medicine (Samargandy Shireen, Bukhari, Samargandy Shaza, Madani), Faculty of Medicine, the Infection Control and Environmental Health Unit (Bahlas, Alawi, Al-Abdullah, Madani), the Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology (Aldigs, Alawi), Faculty of Medicine, the Department of Public Health (Al-Abdullah), College of Nursing, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Shaza A. Samargandy
From the Department of Medicine (Samargandy Shireen, Bukhari, Samargandy Shaza, Madani), Faculty of Medicine, the Infection Control and Environmental Health Unit (Bahlas, Alawi, Al-Abdullah, Madani), the Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology (Aldigs, Alawi), Faculty of Medicine, the Department of Public Health (Al-Abdullah), College of Nursing, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Rawiah S. Bahlas
From the Department of Medicine (Samargandy Shireen, Bukhari, Samargandy Shaza, Madani), Faculty of Medicine, the Infection Control and Environmental Health Unit (Bahlas, Alawi, Al-Abdullah, Madani), the Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology (Aldigs, Alawi), Faculty of Medicine, the Department of Public Health (Al-Abdullah), College of Nursing, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Eman K. Aldigs
From the Department of Medicine (Samargandy Shireen, Bukhari, Samargandy Shaza, Madani), Faculty of Medicine, the Infection Control and Environmental Health Unit (Bahlas, Alawi, Al-Abdullah, Madani), the Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology (Aldigs, Alawi), Faculty of Medicine, the Department of Public Health (Al-Abdullah), College of Nursing, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Maha M. Alawi
From the Department of Medicine (Samargandy Shireen, Bukhari, Samargandy Shaza, Madani), Faculty of Medicine, the Infection Control and Environmental Health Unit (Bahlas, Alawi, Al-Abdullah, Madani), the Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology (Aldigs, Alawi), Faculty of Medicine, the Department of Public Health (Al-Abdullah), College of Nursing, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Nabeela A. Al-Abdullah
From the Department of Medicine (Samargandy Shireen, Bukhari, Samargandy Shaza, Madani), Faculty of Medicine, the Infection Control and Environmental Health Unit (Bahlas, Alawi, Al-Abdullah, Madani), the Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology (Aldigs, Alawi), Faculty of Medicine, the Department of Public Health (Al-Abdullah), College of Nursing, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Tariq A. Madani
From the Department of Medicine (Samargandy Shireen, Bukhari, Samargandy Shaza, Madani), Faculty of Medicine, the Infection Control and Environmental Health Unit (Bahlas, Alawi, Al-Abdullah, Madani), the Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology (Aldigs, Alawi), Faculty of Medicine, the Department of Public Health (Al-Abdullah), College of Nursing, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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vol. 37 no. 7 783-790
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.7.14261
PubMed 
27381540

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received December 13, 2015
  • Accepted May 25, 2016
  • Published online July 1, 2016.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Shireen A. Samargandy, MBBS,
  2. Lujain M. Bukhari, MBBS,
  3. Shaza A. Samargandy, MBBS,
  4. Rawiah S. Bahlas, BSN,
  5. Eman K. Aldigs, PhD,
  6. Maha M. Alawi, MBBS, FRCPC,
  7. Nabeela A. Al-Abdullah, BSN, PhD and
  8. Tariq A. Madani, MBBS, FRCPC⇑
  1. From the Department of Medicine (Samargandy Shireen, Bukhari, Samargandy Shaza, Madani), Faculty of Medicine, the Infection Control and Environmental Health Unit (Bahlas, Alawi, Al-Abdullah, Madani), the Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology (Aldigs, Alawi), Faculty of Medicine, the Department of Public Health (Al-Abdullah), College of Nursing, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Prof. Tariq A. Madani, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: tmadani{at}kau.edu.sa
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