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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Alter, Miriam J
• Kruszon-Moran, Deanna
• Nainan, Omana V
• McQuillan, Geraldine M
• Gao, Fengxiang
• Moyer, Linda A
• Kaslow, Richard A
• Margolis, Harold S

Titel

The Prevalence of Hepatitis C Virus Infection in the United States, 1988 through 1994

Ist Teil von

• The New England journal of medicine, 1999-08, Vol.341 (8), p.556-562

Ort / Verlag

Boston, MA: Massachusetts Medical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

1999

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a leading cause of chronic liver disease in the United States. Before the characterization of HCV, 1 , 2 the magnitude of infection could not be reliably determined because assessment of clinical disease (i.e., non-A, non-B hepatitis) underestimated the true extent of infection. After tests to detect antibody to HCV (anti-HCV) became available, studies to determine the prevalence of HCV infection in the general population were performed, mostly with volunteer blood donors as the subjects. 3 , 4 However, the prevalence of HCV among blood donors does not reflect the prevalence in the general population, since even first-time . . .