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Transmission of hepatitis C from a midwife to a patient through non-exposure prone procedures.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Feb 2014
Muir David, Chow Yimmy, Tedder Richard, Smith Donald, Harrison John, Holmes Alison
Abstract excerpt
A woman developed acute hepatitis C (HCV) infection 2 months after delivering her baby at a London Hospital. The other patients who had been on the unit at the same time all had negative HCV serology antenatally. Testing of the healthcare workers who had been involved in this patient's care revealed that one of the midwives who only worked on the postnatal unit was chronically infected with the same viral...
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