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

• Main Authors: Gabriela Salmón-Mulanovich (Author), Gregory Utz (Author), Andrés G Lescano (Author), David E Bentzel (Author), David L Blazes (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2009-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

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...