Epidemiologic survey and genetic analysi
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Hironobu Tawaraya; Showgo Ohkoshi; Kenji Kuwana; Masashi Watanabe; Tomoteru Kami
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Article
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1995
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Mass screening for hepatitis C virus antibody was carried out in 875 inhabitants (313 men and 562 women) of a town in Japan with a high rate of hepatitis B virus infection. The overall rate of positivity for anti-HCV was 8.8% (6.4% in men and 10.1% in women). The rate of positivity for hepatitis B v