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 an...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Clinical microbiology and infection 2011-02, Vol.17 (2), p.238-241
Hauptverfasser:	Bocket, L., Chevaliez, S., Talbodec, N., Sobaszek, A., Pawlotsky, J.M., Yazdanpanah, Y.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Biological and medical sciences Bleeding Female Ham Hand Hand Injuries Hepacivirus - isolation & purification Hepatitis Hepatitis C - diagnosis Hepatitis C - transmission Hepatitis C virus HIV Homology Human immunodeficiency virus Human viral diseases Humans Infectious diseases Injuries Meat Medical sciences Molecular Sequence Data Nucleotides Occupational Diseases - diagnosis Occupational Diseases - virology occupational transmission phylogenetic analysis Phylogeny Risk factors RNA, Viral - genetics Sequence Analysis, DNA Sequence Homology Viral diseases Viral Envelope Proteins - genetics Viral hepatitis Viral Nonstructural Proteins - genetics
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Zusammenfassung:	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.
ISSN:	1198-743X 1469-0691
DOI:	10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03245.x