Transmission of hepatitis C virus from mothers to infants

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 330, Issue 11, 1994, Pages 744-750

  Ohto, Hitoshi ^a   Terazawa, Sousuke ^b   Sasaki, Nobuhiko ^c   Sasaki, Nobutaka ^e   Hino, Kunihiko ^f   Ishiwata, Chieko ^g   Kako, Makoto ^h   Ujiie, Niro ^a   Endo, Chikara ^a   Matsui, Akira ^c   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^d   Mishiro, Shunji ⁱ  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Gifu Kouseiren General Hospital   (Japan)

^c Department of Pediatrics ^*  (Japan)

^d Immunology Division ^*  (Japan)

^e JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^g Ishiwata Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital   (Japan)

^h TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

ⁱ Institute of Immunology Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RISK; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIREMIA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 0028343546     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199403173301103     Document Type: Article

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