## Abstract Sexual transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) was studied between 104 anti‐HCV positive index cases (99 haemophilic men, five women) who have attended the Oxford Haemophilia Centre and 104 (98 female, 6 male) longstanding sexual partners. Ninety‐one percent of the index cases were HCV
Low risk of sexual transmission of hepatitis C virus to spouses of infected hemodialysis patients
✍ Scribed by Maria Aparecida Fadil-Romão; Luciana Navarro Pomar; João Egidio Romão Jr.
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 74 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0090-2934
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