Change in hepatitis C virus positivity among needle-stick injury source patients: a 10-year experience in a Japanese tertiary hospital

BACKGROUND: As a blood-borne pathogen, hepatitis C virus (HCV) has long been a major threat associated with needle-stick injuries (NSIs) mainly because no vaccine is available for HCV. Following an NSI, we usually test the source patient for HCV antibody (HCV-Ab). Since HCV-Ab positivity does not ne...

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Publicado en:BMC Infect Dis
Main Authors: Okushin, Kazuya, Suzuki, Rie, Tsutsumi, Takeya, Okamoto, Koh, Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko, Kado, Akira, Minatsuki, Chihiro, Minami-Kobayashi, Yuka, Satoh, Nobuhiko, Ikeda, Mahoko, Harada, Sohei, Enooku, Kenichiro, Fujinaga, Hidetaka, Yotsuyanagi, Hiroshi, Koike, Kazuhiko, Moriya, Kyoji
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8086119/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33931015
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06117-4
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