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To the Editor: With regard to our article on the transmission of hepatitis C virus from a patient to an anesthesiology assistant and subsequently to five other patients (Dec. 21 issue),¹ we wish to clarify two points. First, the anesthesiology assistant was not a physician but a nurse who assisted the anesthetist.

Second, the cases we described have been the subject of legal proceedings. As virologists at the German National Reference Center for Hepatitis C, the two of us were asked by judicial authorities to elucidate the circumstances of the suspected nosocomial spread of the virus. Two of our coauthors, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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