Patient-to-patient transmission of hepatitis C virus during colonoscopy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 337, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 237-240

  Bronowicki, Jean Pierre ^a   Venard, Véronique ^a   Botté, Christine ^a   Monhoven, Nathalie ^a   Gastin, Isabelle ^a   Choné, Laurence ^a   Hudziak, Hervé ^a   Rhin, Bertrand ^a   Delanoë, Christophe ^a   LeFaou, Alain ^a   Bigard, Marc André ^a   Gaucher, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; DISINFECTION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS TYPING;

BASE SEQUENCE; COLONOSCOPES; COLONOSCOPY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; DISINFECTION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 0030764517     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199707243370404     Document Type: Article

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