## Abstract Sexual transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) was studied between 104 antiβHCV positive index cases (99 haemophilic men, five women) who have attended the Oxford Haemophilia Centre and 104 (98 female, 6 male) longstanding sexual partners. Ninetyβone percent of the index cases were HCV
Low risk of sexual transmission of hepatitis C virus in Somalia
β Scribed by Douglas M. Watts; Andrew L. Corwin; Mahmoud A. Omar; Kenneth C. Hyams
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 257 KB
- Volume
- 88
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0035-9203
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