title: Nosocomial transmission of hepatitis C virus from an anesthesiologist to three patients--epidemiologic and molecular evidence.
abstract: Acute hepatitis C occurred in three patients who had undergone gynecologic surgery in an outpatient clinic on a single day. Epidemiologic and virologic investigations revealed virus transmission from an anesthesiologist with chronic hepatitis C. HCV sequencing demonstrated that all four persons were infected by the same strain. The precise mode of transmission could not be elucidated but hygienic standards had been severely neglected.
authors.affiliation: Robert Koch-Institut Berlin, Berlin, Germany. starkk@rki.de
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Stark
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hänel
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Berg
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Schreier
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000776:Anesthesiology; D001483:Base Sequence; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000635:transmission* / Q000821:virology; D005260:Female; D016174:Hepacivirus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000635:transmission* / Q000821:virology; D006801:Humans; D017757:Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient; D008875:Middle Aged; D017720:Molecular Epidemiology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017385:Sequence Homology
chemical_list: D012367:RNA, Viral