Occupational transmission of hepatitis C virus resulting from use of the same supermarket meat slicer.
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.
Bocket
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L
Laboratoire de Virologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille, France. l-bocket@chru-lille.fr
Chevaliez
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S
Talbodec
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N
Sobaszek
A
A
Pawlotsky
J M
JM
Yazdanpanah
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Y
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006230:Hand Injuries; D016174:Hepacivirus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000821:virology*; D010802:Phylogeny; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017385:Sequence Homology; D014759:Viral Envelope Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D017361:Viral Nonstructural Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D012324:RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase
D012367:RNA, Viral; D014759:Viral Envelope Proteins; D017361:Viral Nonstructural Proteins; C087035:E1 protein, Hepatitis C virus; C091015:glycoprotein E2, Hepatitis C virus; C087036:NS-5 protein, hepatitis C virus; D012324:RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase