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Transmission of hepatitis C virus by a cardiac surgeon.

The New England journal of medicine - 29 Feb 1996

Esteban J I, Gómez J, Martell M, Cabot B, Quer J, Camps J, González A, Otero T, Moya A, Esteban R

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BACKGROUND: In the course of a study conducted in 1992 through 1994 of the efficacy of screening blood donors for antibodies to hepatitis C virus (HCV), we found that two patients had acquired hepatitis C after cardiac surgery, with the transmission apparently unrelated to blood transfusions. Because their surgeon had chronic hepatitis C, we sought to determine whether he was transmitting the virus to his...

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PMID: 8569822
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199602293340902

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