Hepatitis C in Hospital Employees with Needlestick Injuries
- 1 September 1991
- journal article
- Published by American College of Physicians in Annals of Internal Medicine
- Vol. 115 (5), 367-369
- https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-115-5-367
Abstract
Hepatitis virus infection has been a problem among hospital employees. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is now controlled by hospital safety practices limiting exposure to blood and other body fluids and by both passive and active immunization (1). Without an antigen-antibody system for detecting non-A, non-B hepatitis virus, there has been no way to confirm this diagnosis or to establish that the hepatitis developing in a needlestick recipient was related to that of the implicated patient. Recently, the primary agent of non-A, non-B hepatitis, now designated hepatitis C virus (HCV), has been cloned (2), and an assay to detect antibodyKeywords
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