Heterosexual transmission of hepatitis C virus among married couples in southwestern Japan

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 50-55

  Tanaka, Keitaro ^a,f   Stuver, Sherri O ^b   Ikematsu, Hideyuki ^c   Okayama, Akihiko ^d   Tachibana, Nobuyoshi ^e   Hirohata, Tomio ^a   Kashiwagi, Seizaburo ^c   Tsubouchi, Hirohito ^d   Mueller, Nancy E ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^e Oita Prefectural Institute of Health and Environment   (Japan)

^f KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RADIOIMMUNOPRECIPITATION; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HTLV-I ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; RNA, VIRAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030741373     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19970703)72:1<50::AID-IJC7>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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