Rapid response to a case of mumps: implications for preventing transmission at a medical research facility Respuesta rápida a un caso de paperas: implicaciones para la prevención del contagio en una instalación de investigación biomédica

Rapid response to a case of mumps: implications for preventing transmission at a medical research facility Respuesta rápida a un caso de paperas: implicaciones para la prevención del contagio en una instalación de investigación biomédica

OBJECTIVE: To prevent transmission among the staff and potentially among the non-human primate (NHP) colony at the U.S. Naval Medical Research Center Detachment in Peru, where an active case of mumps was discovered in a senior laboratory technician in Sep 03, 2007. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Subjects at...

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Main Authors: Gabriela Salmón-Mulanovich, Gregory Utz, Andrés G Lescano, David E Bentzel, David L Blazes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública 2009-02-01
Series:Salud Pública de México
Subjects:
parotiditis
epidemiología
primates
mumps
epidemiology
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