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cord-257553-479x7av6	Kortepeter, Mark G.	Health Care Workers and Researchers Traveling to Developing-World Clinical Settings: Disease Transmission Risk and Mitigation	2010-12-01		.txt	text/plain	3967	217	39	title: Health Care Workers and Researchers Traveling to Developing-World Clinical Settings: Disease Transmission Risk and Mitigation This review provides practical advice for this special population of travelers, targeted to specific health care-related risks (needlestick, hemorrhagic fever viruses, severe viral respiratory disease, and tuberculosis), with suggestions for risk mitigation. Although no prophylaxis for hepatitis C virus (HCV) exposure exists, the needlestick transmission risk is lower (1.8%), and up to 20% of transmitted infections resolve spontaneously. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends a 3-drug PEP regimen if the source patient is known to be infected with HIV and the source device is a hollow-bore needle or has visible blood contamination. During the pandemic, transmission to HCWs occurred after close, unprotected contact with symptomatic persons and was significantly mitigated once infection-control precautions were implemented; the degree of risk was related to the type and intensity of exposure (endotracheal intubation was significantly associated with contracting SARS) [27, 28] .	./cache/cord-257553-479x7av6.txt	./txt/cord-257553-479x7av6.txt