Discover Community Create You

Loading publication...

Noodle always counts identifier-free feature events for service operation. With your permission, Google Analytics can also estimate audience and engagement. Search text, publication identifiers, cookies, IP addresses and browser fingerprints are never included in Noodle's first-party event counters.

Privacy details

Article

Transmission of hepatitis B virus associated with assisted monitoring of blood glucose at an assisted living facility in New York State.

American journal of infection control - 1 Oct 2012

Schaffzin Joshua K, Southwick Karen L, Clement Ernest J, Konings Franciscus, Ganova-Raeva Lilia, Xia Guoliang, Khudyakov Yury, Johnson Geraldine S

Abstract excerpt

BACKGROUND: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) transmission has been reported after patient-to-patient blood exposure during assisted monitoring of blood glucose (AMBG). Three assisted-living facility (ALF) residents who underwent AMBG developed acute HBV infection (HBVI) within 10 days. We investigated HBV transmission and implemented preventive measures. METHODS: A retrospective cohort study was conducted. Infection...

Read the complete abstract on PubMed

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

Share to Acute Disease
Share to Cross Infection

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Share to Diabetes Mellitus

Share to Disease Outbreaks

Share to Hepatitis B

Share to Infection Control

Share to Long-Term Care

Share to New York

Source

Identifiers

PMID: 22284938
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2011.11.002

Provenance

PubMed metadata and Literature Corpus relationships. Corpus snapshot updated 6 Sept 2026. Manifest publication-graph-cohort-2026-09-06.1.

Source receipt: pubmed, retrieved 6 Sept 2026.

Related research

Semantic proximity does not establish scientific evidence.

Research trail→

Click a neighbor to travelStep 1 · 8 closest

Transmission of hepatitis B virus associated with assisted monitoring of blood glucose at an assisted living facility in New York State.PMID 22284938Read ↗

Hepatitis B outbreak in a nursing home associated with reusable lancet devices for blood glucose monitoring, Northern Germany 2010.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Continuous glucose monitoring in older people with diabetes receiving home care - A feasibility studySemantic proximity Read ↗

Community-Based Services to Improve Testing and Linkage to Care Among Non–U.S.-Born Persons with Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection — Three U.S. Programs, October 2014–September 2017Semantic proximity Read ↗

Studies of nosocomial outbreaks of hepatitis B in nursing homes in Germany suggest a major role of hepatitis B e antigen expression in disease severity and progression.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Early Identification and Linkage to Care of Foreign-Born People with Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection, Multnomah County, Oregon, 2012–2014Semantic proximity Read ↗

[Hepatitis B Virus (Hepadnaviridae: Orthohepadnavirus: Hepatitis B virus) among Hospitalized Mentally Disabled Patients is not transmitted by their nurses or family members].Semantic proximity Read ↗

Acute hepatitis A in an elderly patient after care worker travel to high endemicity country.Semantic proximity Read ↗

A comparison of effectiveness of hepatitis B screening and linkage to care among foreign-born populations in clinical and nonclinical settingsSemantic proximity Read ↗

⌁Select a neighboring publication to make it the new centre.