Sign in
Notes From the Field: Transplant-Transmitted Hepatitis B Virus-United States, 2010
Journal article   Peer reviewed

Notes From the Field: Transplant-Transmitted Hepatitis B Virus-United States, 2010

Walter Hellinger, Barry Rosser, Andrew Keaveny, Rebecca Alcantara, Saad Zaheer, Robyn Kay, Scott Pringle, Kevin Stump, Shirley Schlessinger, Greg Richardson, …
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, Vol.306(15), pp.1648-1648
19/10/2011

Abstract

Disease transmission Hepatitis Risk factors Transplants & implants
Hellinger et al assess a possible transmission of transplant-associated hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection to a recipient. On March 29, 2011, CDC was notified about a possible transplant-associated hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in a liver transplant recipient with no known risk factors for HBV infection. An investigation was begun to learn if other recipients of organs or tissues from the donor had been infected with HBV and to investigate potential sources of the donor's infection.

Metrics

1 Record Views

Details