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Endoscopic Transmission of Hepatitis B Virus

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Journal Gut
Specialty Gastroenterology
Date 1983 Feb 1
PMID 6852628
Citations 29
Authors
G G Birnie
E M Quigley
G B Clements
E A Follet
G Watkinson
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Abstract

Although transmission of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection has long been recognised as a potential hazard of gastrointestinal endoscopy, there has been little evidence of direct patient-to-patient cross-infection after such procedures. We wish to report a case of type B viral hepatitis almost certainly acquired at endoscopy from an instrument sterilised in the conventional manner, but which had been used on the previous day on a patient with bleeding oesophageal varices who was incubating type B viral hepatitis.

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