Patient-to-patient transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) during colonoscopy diagnosis

Virology Journal

Volumn 7, Issue , 2010, Pages

  González Candelas, Fernando ^a,c,d   Guiral, Silvia ^b   Carbá, Rosa ^b   Valero, Ana ^c,e   Vanaclocha, Hermelinda ^b   González, Francisco ^b   Bracho, Maria A ^a,c,d  

^a Centre Superior d'Investigació en Salut Pública CSISP FISABIO Área de Desigualtats en Salut   (Spain)

^b Universitat de València ^*  (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^d CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; COLONOSCOPE; COLONOSCOPY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDOSCOPY; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

NS 5 PROTEIN, HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NS-5 PROTEIN, HEPATITIS C VIRUS; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

COLONOSCOPY; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

EID: 77956835308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1743422X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-422X-7-217     Document Type: Article

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