Molecular analysis of transmission of hepatitis C virus in a nurse who acquired acute hepatitis C after caring for a viremic patient with epistaxis

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1363-1370

  Toda, Takayuki ^a,b   Mitsui, Takehiro ^a   Tsukamoto, Yukie ^a   Ebara, Takeshi ^b   Hirose, Akinori ^a   Masuko, Kazuo ^a   Nagashima, Shigeo ^c   Takahashi, Masaharu ^c   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^c  

^a Masuko Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Finger injury; Genotype; Hepatitis C virus; Patient to nurse transmission; Phylogenetic analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NURSES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; YOUNG ADULT;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 68049101296     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: 10969071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.21537     Document Type: Article

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