ReviewWorld journal of gastroenterology2014
Health care-associated hepatitis C virus infection.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 54 citations in OpenAlex.
- Hepatitis C distribution across diverse population groups in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: An umbrella review.PloS one · 2026Pooled it
- Meta-analysis: risk of hepatitis C virus infection associated with hospital-based invasive procedures.Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics · 2022Pooled it
- An agent-based model to simulate the transmission dynamics of bloodborne pathogens within hospitals.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Risk of hepatitis C transmission by healthcare workers - a systematic review.GMS hygiene and infection control · 2025Review
- Socioeconomic determinants of malaria and hepatitis infections: insights from the Federal Medical Center, Makurdi, North Central, Nigeria.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Bibliometric analysis of occupational exposure in operating room from 1973 to 2022.Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology (London, England) · 2024Article
- Gender differences in risk exposures for acute hepatitis C infection in Taiwan: a nationwide case-control study.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Malignancy and viral infections in Sub-Saharan Africa: A review.Frontiers in virology (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Epidemiology, risk factors, and pathogenesis associated with a superbug: A comprehensive literature review on hepatitis C virus infection.SAGE open medicine · 2022Review
- Trends of the Global Hepatitis C Disease Burden: Strategies to Achieve Elimination.Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi · 2021Article
- Hepatitis C elimination in Myanmar: Modelling the impact, cost, cost-effectiveness and economic benefits.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2021Article
- Effectiveness of direct-acting antivirals in maintenance hemodialysis patients complicated with chronic hepatitis C.Medicine · 2020Observational
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- Modeling suggests that microliter volumes of contaminated blood caused an outbreak of hepatitis C during computerized tomography.PloS one · 2019Article
- Trends in hepatitis B and hepatitis C seroprevalence among blood donors - Haiti, 2005-2014.ISBT science series · 2018Article
- No longer 'written off' - times have changed for the BBV-infected dental professional.British dental journal · 2017Article
- Detection of hepatitis C virus (HCV) among health care providers in an Egyptian university hospital: different diagnostic modalities.Infection and drug resistance · 2017Article
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Abstract
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a blood-borne pathogen that has a worldwide distribution and infects millions of people. Care-associated HCV infections represented a huge part of hepatitis C burden in the past via contaminated blood and unsafe injections and continue to be a serious problem of public health. The present review proposes a panorama of health care-associated HCV infections via the three mode of contamination that have been identified: (1) infected patient to non-infected patient; (2) infected patient to non-infected health care worker (HCW); and (3) infected HCW to non infected patient. For each condition, the circumstances of contamination are described together with the means to prevent them. As a whole, the more important risk is represented by unsafe practices regarding injections, notably with the improper use of multidose vials used for multiple patients. The questions of occupational exposures and infected HCWs are also discussed. In terms of prevention and surveillance, the main arm for combating care-associated HCV infections is the implementation of standard precautions in all the fields of cares, with training programs and audits to verify their good application. HCWs must be sensitized to the risk of blood-borne pathogens, notably by the use of safety devices for injections and good hygiene practices in the operating theatre and in all the invasive procedures. The providers performing exposed-prone procedures must monitor their HCV serology regularly in order to detect early any primary infection and to treat it without delay. With the need to stay vigilant because HCV infection is often a hidden risk, it can be hoped that the number of people infected by HCV via health care will decrease very significantly in the next years.
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