Transmission of hepatitis C virus from a patient to an anesthesiology assistant to five patients

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 343, Issue 25, 2000, Pages 1851-1854

  Ross, R Stefan ^a   Viazov, Sergei ^a   Gross, Tanja ^a   Hofmann, Friedrich ^b   Seipp, Hans Martin ^c   Roggendorf, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^c DR HORST SCHMIDT KLINIKEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIOLOGY; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PROFESSIONAL-TO-PATIENT; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HOSPITALS, MUNICIPAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERATING ROOM TECHNICIANS; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 0034700453     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200012213432505     Document Type: Article

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