Hepatitis C virus infections from unsafe injection practices at an endoscopy clinic in Las Vegas, Nevada, 2007-2008

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 267-273

  Fischer, Gayle E ^a   Schaefer, Melissa K ^b   Labus, Brian J ^c   Sands, Lawrence ^c   Rowley, Patricia ^c   Azzam, Ihsan A ^e   Armour, Patricia ^d   Khudyakov, Yury E ^a   Lin, Yulin ^a   Xia, Guoliang ^a   Patel, Priti R ^b   Perz, Joseph F ^b   Holmberg, Scott D ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR PREPAREDNESS DETECTION AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c Southern Nevada Health District   (United States)

^d Southern Nevada Public Health Laboratory   (United States)

^e Nevada State Health Division   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROPOFOL;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; ASEPSIS; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDOSCOPY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SYRINGE; UNITED STATES; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INJECTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEVADA;

EID: 77954704435     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/653937     Document Type: Article

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