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Case Reports
. 1983 Feb;24(2):171-4.
doi: 10.1136/gut.24.2.171.

Endoscopic transmission of hepatitis B virus

G G Birnie, E M Quigley, G B Clements, E A Follet, G Watkinson
Case Reports

Endoscopic transmission of hepatitis B virus

G G Birnie et al. Gut. 1983 Feb.

Abstract

Although transmission of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection has long been recognised as a potential hazard of gastrointestinal endoscopy, there has been little evidence of direct patient-to-patient cross-infection after such procedures. We wish to report a case of type B viral hepatitis almost certainly acquired at endoscopy from an instrument sterilised in the conventional manner, but which had been used on the previous day on a patient with bleeding oesophageal varices who was incubating type B viral hepatitis.

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