Background: The discovery of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) largely responsible for the non A non B hepatitis, and the antiHCV antibody allows epidemiologic data and risk factors of infection related to the same to be known. The aim of the authors was to know the prevalence of the antiHCV in health care staff in relation with a group of extrahospitalary workers.
Methods: A transversal seroepidemiologic study was carried out in physicians, nurses and auxiliaries with seniority of more than one year in the medical, surgical, emergency, and ICU departments and laboratories of the general hospital of reference (1200 beds).