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Occupational transmission of hepatitis C virus resulting from use of the same supermarket meat slicer.
Tracing risk factors for acquiring hepatitis C virus (HCV) in an HCV-infected patient, the only identified risk was working at the same butcher's counter of a supermarket as another HCV-infected patient, using a common ham cutting machine, with frequent bleeding hand injuries. A phylogenetic analysis showed a high percentage of nucleotide homology between the two patients' strains. © 2010 European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. No claim to original US government works.