Epidemiological study of the hepatitis C virus infection in a hemodialysis center;Estudio epidemiológico de la infección por el virus de la hepatitis C en una Unidad de Hemodiálisis

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 496-499

  Pena, María José ^a   Molina, Lourdes ^a   Hortal, Luis ^a   Gallego, Roberto ^a   Rodríguez, José Luis ^a   Pérez, María Carmen ^a   Palop, Leocadia ^a   Fiuza, María Dolores ^a   Lafarga, Bernardo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GRAN CANARIA DR NEGRÍN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Hemodialysis; Hepatitis C virus

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPAIN; STATISTICS;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEMODIALYSIS UNITS, HOSPITAL; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RNA, VIRAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SPAIN;

EID: 0034568228     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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