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Hepatitis C Virus Transmission From a Healthcare Worker to a Patient

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Florence Lot ,
Elisabeth Delarocque-Astagneau ,
Valérie Thiers ,
Claude Bernet ,
François Rimlinger ,
Jean-Claude Desenclos ,
Pascal Chaud  and
Françoise Dumay
Florence Lot*
Affiliation:
Département des maladies infectieuses, Institut de veille sanitaire, Saint-Maurice, France
Elisabeth Delarocque-Astagneau
Affiliation:
Département des maladies infectieuses, Institut de veille sanitaire, Saint-Maurice, France
Valérie Thiers
Affiliation:
Centre National de Référence pour l'Épidémiologie Moléculaire des Hépatites Virales, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Claude Bernet
Affiliation:
Centre de Coordination de la Lutte contre les Infections Nosocomiales du Sud-est, Lyon, France
François Rimlinger
Affiliation:
Centre National de Référence pour l'Épidémiologie Moléculaire des Hépatites Virales, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Jean-Claude Desenclos
Affiliation:
Département des maladies infectieuses, Institut de veille sanitaire, Saint-Maurice, France
Pascal Chaud
Affiliation:
Cellule Interrégionale d'Épidémiologie Antilles-Guyane, Fort-de-France, France
Françoise Dumay
Affiliation:
Ministère de la Santé et des Solidarités, Paris, France
*
Institut de veille sanitaire, Département des maladies infectieuses, 12 rue du Val d'Osne, 94415 Saint-Maurice cedex, France (f.lot@invs.sante.fr)
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Abstract

We investigated the source of infection in a patient who developed acute hepatitis C virus infection after cardiothoracic surgery. A healthcare worker was found to be infected with hepatitis C virus, and molecular analysis indicated the strain was similar to that found in the patient. The exact mode of transmission was not identified; however, atopic eczema on the healthcare worker's hands may have contributed to the transmission.

Type
Concise Communication
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , February 2007 , pp. 227 - 229
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2007

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