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Hepatitis C virus in a hemodialysis unit: molecular evidence for nosocomial transmission.
Kidney international - 1 Mar 1996
Stuyver L, Claeys H, Wyseur A, Van Arnhem W, De Beenhouwer H, Uytendaele S, Beckers J, Matthijs D, Leroux-Roels G, Maertens G, De Paepe M
Abstract excerpt
Between February 1991 and January 1992, elevated alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels were observed in several hemodialysis patients in a dialysis center in Dendermonde, Belgium. By the end of 1992, 25 out of 68 patients had seroconverted for HCV antibodies. The HCV strains from 23 of these seroconverters were genotyped and classified as genotype 1b. Sequence analysis of the HCV Core region was carried out in 12...
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