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
Phylogenetic tree-based epidemiological analysis of hepatitis C virus transmission in a region of Japan with a high prevalence of infection
โ Scribed by TOSHIYA HARA; YOICHI SETOGUCHI; SUSUMU KAJIHARA; KYOSUKE YAMAMOTO; TAKAHIRO SAKAI; TAKATOSHI INOUE; KENICHI OHBA; MASASHI MIZOKAMI
- Book ID
- 115170940
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 384 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0815-9319
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