PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Birnie, G G
AU  - Quigley, E M
AU  - Clements, G B
AU  - Follet, E A
AU  - Watkinson, G
TI  - Endoscopic transmission of hepatitis B virus.
AID  - 10.1136/gut.24.2.171
DP  - 1983 Feb 01
TA  - Gut
PG  - 171--174
VI  - 24
IP  - 2
4099  - http://gut.bmj.com/content/24/2/171.short
4100  - http://gut.bmj.com/content/24/2/171.full
SO  - Gut1983 Feb 01; 24
AB  - 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.