Transmission of Hepatitis B Virus to Multiple Patients from a Surgeon without Evidence of Inadequate Infection Control
- 29 February 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 334 (9) , 549-554
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199602293340901
Abstract
Although about 1 percent of surgeons are infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV), transmission from surgeons to patients is thought to be uncommon. In July 1992, a 47-year-old woman became ill with acute hepatitis B after undergoing a thymectomy in which a thoracic-surgery resident who had had acute hepatitis B six months earlier assisted.Keywords
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