Nosocomial Transmission (HCV)

CDC Says Criminal Drug Tampering Caused HCV Outbreak

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, November 10th, 1997

A nosocomial outbreak of hepatitis C virus, which occurred in Fort Worth, Texas during 1992, has been attributed to criminal drug tampering by a scrub technician.

The outbreak and investigation were described by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researcher Lynne Sehulster and colleagues at the American Society for Microbiology's 37th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), held September 28 to October 1, 1997 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Forty-five hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections occurred among patients in an ambulatory surgical center after exposure in early 1992. The epidemiologic...

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