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Hospital-Acquired Serum Hepatitis

Hospital-Acquired Serum Hepatitis Eleven persons who had previously been patients in a community hospital in Cook County, Illinois, had onset of serum hepatitis in May, June, and July 1969. Three months before developing hepatitis, all 11 had been hospitalized on the same ward and cared for by a nurse who was late in the incubation period of serum hepatitis. The 11 hepatitis patients had no unique exposures to hepatotoxic drugs, blood transfusions, contaminated foods or water, or other hepatitis cases. However, they had been given more inoculations by the infected nurse than did a comparison group of patients selected from the same ward. Although no obvious breaks in aseptic technique were found, it seems likely that the virus was spread from nurse to patients by either parenteral or oral contact. The exact route of transmission, however, was not established. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JAMA American Medical Association

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Publisher
American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1972 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved. Applicable FARS/DFARS Restrictions Apply to Government Use.
ISSN
0098-7484
eISSN
1538-3598
DOI
10.1001/jama.1972.03190380011004
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Abstract

Eleven persons who had previously been patients in a community hospital in Cook County, Illinois, had onset of serum hepatitis in May, June, and July 1969. Three months before developing hepatitis, all 11 had been hospitalized on the same ward and cared for by a nurse who was late in the incubation period of serum hepatitis. The 11 hepatitis patients had no unique exposures to hepatotoxic drugs, blood transfusions, contaminated foods or water, or other hepatitis cases. However, they had been given more inoculations by the infected nurse than did a comparison group of patients selected from the same ward. Although no obvious breaks in aseptic technique were found, it seems likely that the virus was spread from nurse to patients by either parenteral or oral contact. The exact route of transmission, however, was not established.

Journal

JAMAAmerican Medical Association

Published: Mar 20, 1972

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