A population of 622 prostitutes in Taiwan was tested for antibodies to the hepatitis C virus (anti-HCV) using a synthetic peptide assay composed of representative determinants from capsid and nonstructural (NS) viral proteins. Seventy-four (12%) were positive and the remaining 548 (88%) were negativ
Prevalence and significance of neurocognitive dysfunction in hepatitis C in the absence of correlated risk factors
β Scribed by Mary Pat McAndrews; Karl Farcnik; Peter Carlen; Andrei Damyanovich; Mirela Mrkonjic; Susan Jones; E. Jenny Heathcote
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 166 KB
- Volume
- 41
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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