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[Assisted reproduction and viral hepatitis: the virologist's viewpoint]
1Service de Bactériologie-Virologie, Hôpital Henri-Mondor, Université Paris XII, Créteil.
Contraception, Fertilite, Sexualite (1992)
|July 1, 1997
Abstract:
Medical assistance to procreation in a couple with one of the parents having viral hepatitis raises the issue of the transmission of infection to the baby and of possible contaminations of gametes from virus-free parents in the laboratory. Today, the main problems are linked to hepatitis B and C viruses, which induce chronic disease transmissible to the baby and can be transmitted through laboratory contaminations.