Patient-to-Patient Transmission of Hepatitis C Virus during Colonoscopy
Open Access
- 24 July 1997
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 337 (4) , 237-240
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199707243370404
Abstract
Invasive diagnostic or therapeutic procedures may be a route for the transmission of the hepatitis C virus (HCV).1-5 In a study of patients in a gastrointestinal-disease unit, endoscopic biopsies were found to be an independent risk factor for HCV infection.6 We report the transmission of HCV during colonoscopy from a person known to have HCV infection to two other patients. The patient-to-patient transmission was ascertained by sequencing the nucleotides in the various HCV isolates.Keywords
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