229 Hepatitis C virus reinfection within a cohort of injecting drug users
โ Scribed by Joanne M. Micallef; Marianne Jauncey; Janaki Amin; William Rawlinson; Stuart Gilmour; Ingrid van Beek; John M. Kaldor; Peter A. White; Gregory J. Dore
- Book ID
- 119530138
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 197 KB
- Volume
- 38
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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Spontaneous clearance of hepatitis C (HCV) may provide protection against reinfection. In a large community-based cohort study of 3,553 inner-city residents (mainly injection drug users), we identified HCV-infected individuals in whom virological clearance had occurred and compared the rate of reinf