High prevalence of hepatitis C infection among patients receiving hemodialysis at an urban dialysis center

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 319-324

  Sivapalasingam, Sumathi ^a   Malak, Sharp F ^b   Sullivan, John F ^a   Lorch, Jonathan ^a   Sepkowitz, Kent A ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEROPREVALENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; BLOOD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW YORK; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0035996305     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502058     Document Type: Article

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