Patient-to-patient transmission of hepatitis C virus during colonoscopy
| Autor: | J P, Bronowicki, V, Venard, C, Botté, N, Monhoven, I, Gastin, L, Choné, H, Hudziak, B, Rihn, C, Delanoë, A, LeFaou, M A, Bigard, P, Gaucher, B, Rhin |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Genotype Hepatitis C virus Molecular Sequence Data Colonoscopy Hepacivirus medicine.disease_cause Internal medicine Biopsy medicine Disease Transmission Infectious Humans Risk factor Colonic disease medicine.diagnostic_test Base Sequence Colonoscopes business.industry Transmission (medicine) virus diseases General Medicine Middle Aged Virology Hepatitis C digestive system diseases Endoscopy Disinfection Equipment Contamination RNA Viral Female Viral disease business |
| Zdroj: | The New England journal of medicine. 337(4) |
| ISSN: | 0028-4793 |
| Popis: | Invasive diagnostic or therapeutic procedures may be a route for the transmission of the hepatitis C virus (HCV).1–5 In a study of patients in a gastrointestinal-disease unit, endoscopic biopsies were found to be an independent risk factor for HCV infection.6 We report the transmission of HCV during colonoscopy from a person known to have HCV infection to two other patients. The patient-to-patient transmission was ascertained by sequencing the nucleotides in the various HCV isolates. Case Report A 55-year-old man (Patient 1) and his 54-year-old wife (Patient 2) were referred in October 1995. In June 1995, both had had hepatitis-like . . . |
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