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The effect of hepatitis C treatment and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) co-infection on the disease burden of hepatitis C among injecting drug users in Amsterdam

✍ Scribed by Amy Matser; Anouk Urbanus; Ronald Geskus; Mirjam Kretzschmar; Maria Xiridou; Marcel Buster; Roel Coutinho; Maria Prins

Book ID: 108600747
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Weight: 245 KB
Volume: 107
Category: Article
ISSN: 0965-2140
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2011.03654.x

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