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Transmission of hepatitis C virus during computed tomography scanning with contrast.


ABSTRACT: Six cases of acute hepatitis C related to computed tomography scanning with contrast were identified in 3 hospitals. A patient with chronic hepatitis C had been subjected to the same procedure immediately before each patient who developed acute infection. Viral molecular analysis showed identity between isolates from cases with acute and chronic hepatitis C.

SUBMITTER: Panella H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2600211 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Transmission of hepatitis C virus during computed tomography scanning with contrast.

Pañella Helena H   Rius Cristina C   Caylà Joan A JA  

Emerging infectious diseases 20080201 2


Six cases of acute hepatitis C related to computed tomography scanning with contrast were identified in 3 hospitals. A patient with chronic hepatitis C had been subjected to the same procedure immediately before each patient who developed acute infection. Viral molecular analysis showed identity between isolates from cases with acute and chronic hepatitis C. ...[more]

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