Occupational transmission of hepatitis C virus resulting from use of the same supermarket meat slicer.

Bocket, L; Chevaliez, S; Talbodec, N; Sobaszek, A; Pawlotsky, J M; Yazdanpanah, Y

Bocket, L; Chevaliez, S; Talbodec, N; Sobaszek, A; Pawlotsky, J M; Yazdanpanah, Y.

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Bocket L; Laboratoire de Virologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille, France. l-bocket@chru-lille.fr

Clin Microbiol Infect ; 17(2): 238-41, 2011 Feb.

Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20412189

ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT

Tracing risk factors for acquiring hepatitis C virus (HCV) in an HCV-infected patient, the only identified risk was working at the same butcher's counter of a supermarket as another HCV-infected patient, using a common ham cutting machine, with frequent bleeding hand injuries. A phylogenetic analysis showed a high percentage of nucleotide homology between the two patients' strains.

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Hepacivirus/isolation & purification; Hepatitis C/diagnosis; Hepatitis C/transmission; Occupational Diseases/diagnosis; Occupational Diseases/virology; Adult; Female; Hand Injuries; Humans; Molecular Sequence Data; Phylogeny; RNA, Viral/genetics; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Sequence Homology; Viral Envelope Proteins/genetics; Viral Nonstructural Proteins/genetics

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Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Hepatitis C / Hepacivirus / Occupational Diseases Type of study: Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies Limits: Adult / Female / Humans Language: En Journal: Clin Microbiol Infect Year: 2011 Document type: Article

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