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Prevalence and genotypes of hepatitis C virus among injecting drug users from Salvador-BA, Brazil

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the major infectious disease agent among injecting drug users (IDUs), with seroprevalence ranging from 50-90%. In this paper, serological and virological parameters were investigated among 194 IDUs, 94 ex-IDUs and 95 non-IDUs that were sampled by the "snowball" technique i...

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Hauptverfasser: Maria Betânia S Silva, Tarcísio M Andrade, Luciano K Silva, Itatiana F Rodart, Gisele B Lopes, Theomira MA Carmo, Maria Alice S Zarife, Inês Dourado, Mitermayer G Reis
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) 2010-05-01
Schriftenreihe:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Schlagworte:
HCV
injecting drug users
HCV genotypes
prevalence
Brazil
Online-Zugang:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762010000300009
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