Article
Hepatitis C virus seroconversion and genotype prevalence in patients and staff on chronic hemodialysis.
Journal of clinical gastroenterology - 1 Jan 1999
Zamir D, Storch S, Zonder H B, Zamir C, Weiner P
Abstract excerpt
The prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV)-RNA positivity among hemodialysis patients varies between 10 and 70%. Few previous surveys revealed high frequency of seroconversion of HCV-RNA-negative patients over the years of hemodialysis. Only few studies reported HCV genotype variability. We evalua...
Topics
- Antibodies, Viral
- Cross Infection
- Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
- Female
- Genotype
- Hemodialysis Units, Hospital
- Hepacivirus
- Hepatitis C, Chronic
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Patient Isolation
- RNA, Viral
- Renal Dialysis
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Seroepidemiologic Studies
- Transfusion Reaction