Increased transmission of vertical hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected infants of HIV- and HCV- coinfected women

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 178, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1047-1052

  Papaevangclou, Vassiliki ^b   Pollack, Henry ^a   Rochford, Gemma ^c   Kokka, Robert ^c   Hou, Zhiying ^c   Chernoff, David ^c   Hanna, Bruce ^c   Krasinski, Keith ^c   Borkowsky, William ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROPREVALENCE; SUPERINFECTION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0031663383     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515668     Document Type: Article

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