Article
Transmission of hepatitis C virus in allografted patients: use of viral genotyping as an epidemiological marker.
Bone marrow transplantation - 1 Dec 1996
Gangneux J P, Traineau R, Tuveri R, Ravera N, Bureau C, Gluckman E, Benbunan M, Loiseau P
Abstract excerpt
One hundred and ninety-two allografted patients were tested for hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA from 1992 to 1995 in Saint-Louis Hospital (Paris). They received blood products and intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG) and more particularly Gammagard IVIG suspected of transmitting HCV (batches distribute...
Topics
- Biomarkers
- Bone Marrow Transplantation
- Disease Outbreaks
- Drug Contamination
- Genotype
- Hepacivirus
- Hepatitis C
- Immunoglobulins, Intravenous
- Paris
- Prevalence
- RNA, Viral
- Transfusion Reaction
- Transplantation, Homologous
