Prevalence, infectivity, and risk factor
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Jaw-Ching Wu; Hwa-Chen Lin; Fong-Shya Jeng; Gong-Yih Ma; Shou-Dong Lee; Wen-Yung
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Article
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1993
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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A population of 622 prostitutes in Taiwan was tested for antibodies to the hepatitis C virus (anti-HCV) using a synthetic peptide assay composed of representative determinants from capsid and nonstructural (NS) viral proteins. Seventy-four (12%) were positive and the remaining 548 (88%) were negativ