Open AccessAn Employee With Undiagnosed Leprosy: Are Other Employees at Risk?
Author(s) -
Ann R. Lurati
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
workplace health and safety
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.398
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 2165-0969
pISSN - 2165-0799
DOI - 10.1177/2165079917697994
Subject(s) - leprosy , medicine , transmission (telecommunications) , environmental health , family medicine , pathology , engineering , electrical engineering
MJ is a janitor working in an office building for the past 5 years. He sustained a third-degree burn with a secondary infection and was sent to the county hospital. He was diagnosed with leprosy. The employees in the office building were concerned with the risk of transmission. This article reviews leprosy, and implications for occupational health nurses are discussed.
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