"Identification of Hepatitis C Virus Seroconversion Resulting from Nosocomial Transmission on a Haemodialysis Unit: Implications for Infection Control and Laboratory Screening."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Journal of Medical Virology, "Hepatitis C virus (HCV) seroconversion was detected by routine screening in a haemodialysis patient, Patient 1. Serological investigations were undertaken over the following 3 months to determine if further transmission to other patients on the unit had occurred. No additional cases were identified. Twenty-two haemodialysis patients known to have HCV infection were investigated using molecular epidemiological methods to determine if transmission between patients had occurred. HCV viraemia was demonstrated by polymerase chain reaction in 19 of 22 patients (86%). Genotyping showed that eight...

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