Does active hepatitis C virus infection increase the risk for infection due to Staphylococcus aureus?

• Published in: European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases Vol. 36; no. 7; pp. 1217 - 1223
• Main Authors: Kaka, A. S., Filice, G. A., Kuskowski, M., Musher, D. M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.07.2017; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Antibiotics; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Blood; Comorbidity; Confidence intervals; Female; Health risk assessment; Hepatitis; Hepatitis C; Hepatitis C - complications; Hospitalization; Humans; Incidence; Indexing; Internal Medicine; Intravenous administration; Male; Medical Microbiology; Middle Aged; Original Article; Recurrent infection; Regression analysis; Retrospective Studies; Ribonucleic acid; Risk Assessment; RNA; Staphylococcal Infections - epidemiology; Staphylococcal Infections - microbiology; Staphylococcal Infections - pathology; Staphylococcus aureus - isolation & purification; Staphylococcus infections; Viruses; Necrotizing Fasciitis; Document Risk Factor; Human Immunodeficiency Virus Viral Load; Roche COBAS; Aureus Infection

Infections with Staphylococcus aureus may be more frequent in subjects with active hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. In this retrospective dual-cohort study, we sought to determine whether persons with active HCV infection (positive HCV antibody, detectable blood HCV RNA) were at greater risk of S....