[Late hepatitis C virus seroconversion in a patient on hemodialysis]

We present a case of an exceptionally late HCV seroconversion in a hemodialysis patient. The clinical case illustrates the difficulty of appropriately and quickly isolating a HCV infected patient, and it demonstrates the necessity to consider all the dialysis patients as potentially infectious patients. The standard precautions in hemodialysis must be applied routinely to all the patients, because the diagnosis of the HCV infection is very often late, and on some occasions it is difficult to interpret correctly the results of the available diagnostic tests.