Investigation of possible patient-to-patient transmission of hepatitis C in a hospital

K Chant, K Kociuba, R Munro, S Crone, R Kerridge, J Quin, M Wyland, G Miller, I Turner, J Brown, L Baird, S Locarnini, S Bowden, K G Kenrick and C Maidment

Abstract

In December 1993 the NSW Health Department was notified that two patients had presented with acute hepatitis C five and seven weeks after undergoing minor surgical procedures in the same operating session at a Sydney private hospital early that year. Neither case had other risk factors for acute hepatitis C.

New South Wales Public Health Bulletin 5(5) 47 - 51

Full text doi:10.1071/NB94020

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