HOW IS EBOLA DIAGNOSED?An exposure may include contact with:Blood or
body fluids from a person sick with or who died from Ebola.Objects contaminated with blood or
body fluids of a person sick with or who died from Ebola.
Collected
body fluids (CSF, pleural, peritoneal and synovial fluids) were inoculated on blood agar (Oxoid, UK), chocolate agar (Oxoid, UK) and MacConkey agar (Oxoid, UK).
Results of
body fluid laboratory analyses are described in Table 1.
([1]) The risk of infection following injuries involving contact with blood and
body fluids is determined by the type of pathogen, the type of contact, the amount of blood contacted, and the amount of virus present in the patient's blood at time of contact.
Body fluids altogether have a different matrix than blood.
Eye protection used during deliveries has been demonstrated to be contaminated with blood and
body fluids (9), and when double layers of gloves are used for procedures and surgeries, the outer layers often have significant perforations, whereas the inner layers are intact or have many fewer perforations (10).
Preparation and assessment of revised simulated
body fluids. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research 2003;65:188-195.
* Do not handle items that may have come in contact with an infected person's blood or
body fluids (such as clothes, bedding, needles, and medical equipment).
He said: "The discovery that equipment used for patients was contaminated with blood and other
body fluids is particularly shocking.
Data were collected on 414
body fluids submitted to the hematology laboratory during an 18-month period.
any
body fluid that is visible contaminated with blood, and any
body fluid in situations where it is difficult or impossible to differentiate between
body fluids ..." Fluid from the same body, but in the form of vapor found in a smoke plume would contain the same potentially infectious agents as found in blood, especially since blood is also found in plume.
23 December 2011 - Norwegian contract electronics maker Kitron ASA (OSL:KIT) said today its Swedish subsidiary Kitron AB had been awarded an order from Swedish developer of blood and
body fluids analysis systems Cellavision AB (STO:CEVI).
