Bloodborne Pathogens Section

Publications and Resources

• Publications
• • Viral Hepatitis
  • Hepatitis A
  • Hepatitis B
  • Hepatitis C
  • Emerging Bloodborne Agents
  • Other Bloodborne Agents
  • Xenotransplantation
• Poster Presentions
• Slidesets
• External publications
• Student Work

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Publications

Viral Hepatitis

• Viral Hepatitis and Emerging Bloodborne Pathogens in Canada
  CCDR Volume 27S3, September 2001

• Surveillance for Viral Hepatitis and Emerging Bloodborne Pathogens in Canada
  CCDR Volume 27S3, September 2001

• Prevention and Control of Viral Hepatitis and Emerging Bloodborne Pathogens in Canada
  CCDR Volume 27S3, September 2001

Hepatitis A:

• Hepatitis A and Its Control
  CCDR Volume 27S3, September 2001

Hepatitis B:

• Hepatitis B in Canada
  CCDR Volume 27S3, September 2001

• Hepatitis B Viral Mutants and Their Relevance to the Health Care System
  CCDR Volume 27S3, September 2001

• Hepatitis B and its Control in Southeast Asia and China
  CCDR Volume 27S3, September 2001

• Hospital Infection Control and Bloodborne Infective Agents
  CCDR Volume 27S3, September 2001

• Germicide Inactivation of Hepatitis B and C Viruses
  CCDR Volume 27S3, September 2001

Hepatitis C:

• Hepatitis C in Canada
  CCDR Volume 27S3, September 2001

• The Effectiveness of Harm Reduction Strategies in Modifying Hepatitis C Infection among Injection Drug Users in Canada
  CCDR Volume 27S3, September 2001

• Hospital Infection Control and Bloodborne Infective Agents
  CCDR Volume 27S3, September 2001

• Germicide Inactivation of Hepatitis B and C Viruses
  CCDR Volume 27S3, September 2001

• Estimating the number of blood transfusion recipients infected by hepatitis C virus in Canada, 1960-85 and 1990-92. Report to Health Canada, June 1998 
  54 pages, 240 KB, 22 June 1998

• Hepatitis C - Public Health Agency of Canada

Emerging Bloodborne Agents:

• Executive Summary, "Review of relevant literature on Simian Virus 40 published between July 2000 and November 2002: Update to July 2000 Simian Virus 40 paper presenting recent knowledge on the zoonotic aspects of SV40 and any identified relationship to blood safety"  
  6 pages, 86 KB, July 2003

• HGV and Implications for Blood Safety Policies in Canada
  CCDR Volume 27S3, September 2001
  

• SEN Virus and the Rapid Response Surveillance System
  CCDR Volume 27S3, September 2001

• Cytomegalovirus, Herpesvirus 6, 7, and 8, and Parvovirus B19 in Canada
  CCDR Volume 27S3, September 2001

• Hepatitis B Viral Mutants and Their Relevance to the Health Care System
  CCDR Volume 27S3, September 2001

• Swine Viruses and Xenozoonosis
  CCDR Volume 27S3, September 2001

Other Bloodborne Agents:

• Cytomegalovirus, Herpesvirus 6, 7, and 8, and Parvovirus B19 in Canada
  CCDR Volume 27S3, September 2001

Xenotransplantation

• Report of the Xenotransplantation Surveillance Workshop
  CCDR Volume 27S1, July 2001

• Xenotransplantation Surveillance in Canada
  CCDR Volume 27S3, September 2001

Poster Presentions

• Incidence of Acute Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C in the Canadian Aboriginal Population, 1999-2000 

• Enhanced Surveillance of Acute and Chronic Hepatitis B and C in Canada, 1999-2000 

• Epidemiology and Health Care Planning: Estimating the Burden of Hepatitis C in Canada 

Slidesets

External publications - CJPH

• Hepatitis A  (Can Med Assoc J, Feb. 15, 1997; 156 (4): p 545) 
• Hepatitis B  (Can Med Assoc J, Apr. 1, 1997; 156 (7): p 1033)
• Hepatitis C  (Can Med Assoc J, May 15, 1997; 156 (10):
  pp 1427-28)

Student Work

• Sex Differences In Injecting Practices And Hepatitis C: A Systematic Review of the Literature
  CCDR Volume 30 Number 14, July 2004
• Hepatits C Virus Transmission in the Prison/Inmate Population
  CCDR Volume 30 Number 16, August 2004