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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-10-6
pubmed:abstractText
An investigation was carried out to find the source of infection in a patient who developed hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection after cardiothoracic surgery, and to determine whether other patients had become infected. Virological tests on specimens from the patient and potential sources (blood donors and members of the surgical team) showed that the patient and the surgeon who acted as first assistant were infected with HCV of the same genotype: 4a. No other source of infection was identified. Ninety-one per cent (277) of the 304 other exposed patients available for follow up were tested--none had antibody to HCV. It was concluded that hepatitis C may be transmitted from surgeon to patient during exposure prone procedures, and that the transmission rate in this incident was 0.36% (1/278; 95% confidence interval 0.0061%-1.98%).
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1462-1843
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
2
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
188-92
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Transmission of hepatitis C virus from a surgeon to a patient. The Incident Control Team.
pubmed:affiliation
East London and the City Health Authority, London. g.duckworth@cdsc.nthames.nhs.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports