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We read with interest the letter from our Lisbon colleagues 1 and were somewhat surprised that only surgeons and dentists were primarily concerned. Why not nurses, radiologists, and gastroenterologists, who are also involved in the performance of invasive and potentially infective procedures in the transplant population? Are surgeons supposed to carry both the burden of increased exposure and the culprit for infective risk? It is the policy within our transplant team not only to immunize susceptible patients against hepatitis A virus and hepatitis B virus infections, 2,3 but also all health care personnel, as dictated by the results of at least annually performed viral markers. This policy is mainly directed toward the protection of these professionals. As a desirable and beneficial side effect, we are, of course, protecting some patients by minimizing doctor-and nurse-induced infectivity, but more importantly, we are protecting the whole group of transplant candidates by trying to preserve the team' s health and capacity to provide them with the treatment they sometimes so desperately need! We also failed to understand the authors' position on how to deal with an infective element

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Author

Maia, José Costa ;Macedo, Guilherme ;Gomes, Abílio

Publisher

Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 1074-3022)

Published

1999

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)