Hepatitis C virus infection in injection drug users in Bavaria: Risk factors for seropositivity
✍ Scribed by Markus Backmund; Kirsten Meyer; Martin Wächtler; Dieter Eichenlaub
- Book ID
- 111543426
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 80 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0393-2990
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## Abstract Intravenous drug users constitute a group at risk for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Today, no data are available on the molecular epidemiology of HCV in Bulgaria despite the fact that in recent years the incidence of acute hepatitis C infection among Bulgarian intravenous drug user