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Antiviral use in healthcare workers—A systematic review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2021

Fazia Tadount ,
Zineb Laghdir  and
Caroline Quach Open the ORCID record for Caroline Quach [Opens in a new window]
Fazia Tadount
Affiliation:
Research Institute, CHU Sainte-Justine, Montreal, Québec, Canada Infection Prevention & Control, CHU Sainte-Justine, Montreal, Québec, Canada
Zineb Laghdir
Affiliation:
Research Institute, CHU Sainte-Justine, Montreal, Québec, Canada Infection Prevention & Control, CHU Sainte-Justine, Montreal, Québec, Canada
Caroline Quach*
Affiliation:
Research Institute, CHU Sainte-Justine, Montreal, Québec, Canada Infection Prevention & Control, CHU Sainte-Justine, Montreal, Québec, Canada Department of Pediatric Laboratory Medicine, CHU Sainte-Justine, Montreal, Québec, Canada Department of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Québec, Canada
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Author for correspondence: Caroline Quach. E-mail: c.quach@umontreal.ca
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Abstract

Neuraminidase inhibitors (NAIs) are likely part of the rapid response and control in influenza pandemics and institutional outbreaks. We conducted a systematic review to appraise the current evidence on the use of NAIs among healthcare workers in the context of an influenza pandemic.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 43 , Issue 4 , April 2022 , pp. 518 - 523
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

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Footnotes

PREVIOUS PRESENTATION. A poster presentation of this article was presented at the AMMI Canada CACMID 2020 virtual conference on April 29th, 2020, in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

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