Journal article
Transmission of Hepatitis B During Blood Glucose Monitoring
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, Vol.253(22), pp.3250-3250
06/14/1985
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1985.03350460046010
PMID: 3999309
Abstract
To the Editor.—The capillary blood sampler is widely used for home blood glucose monitoring. We suspect that it played a central role in the transmission of hepatitis B virus to the wife of one of our patients.Report of a Case.—The patient called us for information regarding postexposure immunoprophylaxis for hepatitis B. His wife had become jaundiced, and test results were found to be positive for hepatitis B surface antigen. Neither our patient nor his wife used intravenous drugs, were health care workers, or had any sexual contact with persons known to have hepatitis B. The wife was a diabetic and monitored her blood glucose level using a capillary blood sampler. She worked in a hair salon with a male homosexual who has chronic hepatitis B virus infection and who had experienced several episodes of shakiness, dizziness, and diaphoresis that resolved with the ingestion of sugar. Our patient's
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Transmission of Hepatitis B During Blood Glucose Monitoring
- Creators
- Jack StapletonStanley Lemon
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, Vol.253(22), pp.3250-3250
- Publisher
- American Medical Association
- DOI
- 10.1001/jama.1985.03350460046010
- PMID
- 3999309
- ISSN
- 0098-7484
- eISSN
- 1538-3598
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/14/1985
- Academic Unit
- Microbiology and Immunology; Infectious Diseases; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984094674102771
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