TT Virus

Occupational Risk For Infection Low Among Japanese Health Care Workers

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, May 7th, 2001

by Sonia Nichols, staff medical writer - Health care workers appear to be at a low risk for acquiring TT virus through occupational exposures, according to investigators in Japan.

Information gathered by researchers at Kitasato University School of Medicine sheds more light on TT virus (TTV), a virus identified in the late 1990s as a cause of post-transfusion hepatitis in some patients.

Authors of the current study, noting TTV prevalence among patients on maintenance hemodialysis ranges between 32% and 46%, studied TTV prevalence among health care workers who worked on the same hemodialysis unit at a medical center.

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