Hepatitis C Virus Infection
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- 5 July 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 345 (1), 41-52
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm200107053450107
Abstract
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infects an estimated 170 million persons worldwide and thus represents a viral pandemic, one that is five times as widespread as infection with the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). The institution of blood-screening measures in developed countries has decreased the risk of transfusion-associated hepatitis to a negligible level, but new cases continue to occur mainly as a result of injection-drug use and, to a lesser degree, through other means of percutaneous or mucous-membrane exposure. Progression to chronic disease occurs in the majority of HCV-infected persons, and infection with the virus has become the main indication . . .Keywords
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