Occupational transmission of hepatitis C virus resulting from use of the same supermarket meat slicer

Clin Microbiol Infect. 2011 Feb;17(2):238-41. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03245.x.

Abstract

Tracing risk factors for acquiring hepatitis C virus (HCV) in an HCV-infected patient, the only identified risk was working at the same butcher's counter of a supermarket as another HCV-infected patient, using a common ham cutting machine, with frequent bleeding hand injuries. A phylogenetic analysis showed a high percentage of nucleotide homology between the two patients' strains.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Female
  • Hand Injuries
  • Hepacivirus / isolation & purification*
  • Hepatitis C / diagnosis*
  • Hepatitis C / transmission*
  • Humans
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Occupational Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Occupational Diseases / virology*
  • Phylogeny
  • RNA, Viral / genetics
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Sequence Homology
  • Viral Envelope Proteins / genetics
  • Viral Nonstructural Proteins / genetics

Substances

  • E1 protein, Hepatitis C virus
  • RNA, Viral
  • Viral Envelope Proteins
  • Viral Nonstructural Proteins
  • glycoprotein E2, Hepatitis C virus
  • NS-5 protein, hepatitis C virus