Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) transmission from ancillary product

Record number: 
553
Adverse Occurrence type: 
MPHO Type: 
Alerting signals, symptoms, evidence of occurrence: 
Onset of the disease temporally related to the procedure
Demonstration of imputability or root cause: 
Epidemic at an IVF centre caused by a human serum pool contaminated with Hepatitis B virus that was used for embryo culture. Temporal relationship between transfer and infection, the microbial agent should be found in embryo culture media.
Imputability grade: 
3 Definite/Certain/Proven
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