Varicella Serological Status of Healthcare Workers as a Guide to Whom to Test or Immunize

Philip Alfred Brunell, David L. Wood

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Abstract

Only 1.6% of 1,331 hospital workers were seronegative for varicella-zoster virus (VZV), including 8.7% of those with a negative history and 0.5% of those with a positive history. Seronegativity was inversely related to age but unrelated to job category, exposure at work to VZV, country of origin, race, or gender.
Original languageAmerican English
JournalInfection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
Volume20
DOIs
StatePublished - May 1 1999
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Varicella serological status
  • healthcare workers

Disciplines

  • Family Medicine
  • Medicine and Health Sciences
  • Critical Care
  • Immunology and Infectious Disease

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