Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ohto, Hitoshi
• Terazawa, Sousuke
• Sasaki, Nobuhiko
• Sasaki, Nobutaka
• Hino, Kunihiko
• Ishiwata, Chieko
• Kako, Makoto
• Ujiie, Niro
• Endo, Chikara
• Matsui, Akira
• Okamoto, Hiroaki
• Mishiro, Shunji

Titel

Transmission of Hepatitis C Virus from Mothers to Infants

Ist Teil von

• The New England journal of medicine, 1994-03, Vol.330 (11), p.744-750

Ort / Verlag

Boston, MA: Massachusetts Medical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

1994

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Mother-to-baby transmission is well documented for hepatitis B virus (HBV) and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This mode of transmission has a key role in the survival of HBV over many generations. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) 1 infection is characterized by persistent viremia, and the virus is a major cause of liver disease in humans, including cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Like HBV and HIV, HCV has an increased prevalence in transfusion recipients, intravenous drug abusers, and medical personnel 2 – 5 . Although several possible cases of maternal transmission have been reported, 6 – 9 it remains uncertain to what extent maternal transmission of HCV . . .