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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Philip Alfred Brunell  and
David Wood
Philip Alfred Brunell*
Affiliation:
Ahmanson Pediatric Center, Los Angeles, California Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California University of California-Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California
David Wood
Affiliation:
Shriners' Hospitals for Children, Tampa, Florida
*
Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, NIAID, NIH, Bldg 10, Rm 11N228, 10 Center Dr, Bethesda, MD 20892
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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.

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Concise Communications
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 20 , Issue 5 , May 1999 , pp. 355 - 357
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1999

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