Late virus C seroconversion in a patient on hemodialysis

We present a case of an exceptionally late HCV seroconversion in a hemodial ysis patient. The clinical case illustrates the difficulty of appropriately and quickly isolating a HCV infected patient, and it demonstrates the nece ssity to consider all the dialysis patients as potentially infectious patie nts. 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 resu lts of the available diagnostic tests.