Transmission of Hepatitis C Virus: Rates, Routes, and Cofactors
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Transmission of hepatitis C virus: rates, routes, and cofactors.
The existence of a viral cause of hepatitis other than hepatitis A and hepatitis B was first recognized in the early 1970s following the development of diagnostic blood tests for hepatitis A and hepatitis B. Early studies showed that appreciable proportions of people presenting with acute hepatitis following blood transfusion or community-acquired hepatitis did not have any serologic evidence o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Epidemiologic Reviews
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0193-936X,1478-6729
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.epirev.a017921