Hepatitis C virus infection in a community in the Nile Delta: Risk factors for seropositivity

Hepatology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 248-253

  Habib, Mostafa ^a   Mohamed, Mostafa K ^b   Abdel Aziz, Fatma ^a   Magder, Laurence S ^e   Abdel Hamid, Mohamed ^c,e   Gamil, Foda ^a   Madkour, Salah ^a   Mikhail, Nabiel N ^d   Anwar, Wagida ^b,f   Strickland, Thomas ^e   Fix, Alan D ^e   Sallam, Ismail ^f  

^a Center for Field and Applied Research   (Egypt)

^b AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c MINIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d Assiut University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISCHISTOSOMAL AGENT; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ABORTION; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CESAREAN SECTION; CIRCUMCISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGYPT; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEROPREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0035204126     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jhep.2001.20797     Document Type: Article

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