Prospective study of mother-to-infant transmission of hepatitis C virus: A 10-year survey (1990-2000)

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 229-234

  Ferrero, Simone ^a,b   Lungaro, Pietro ^a   Bruzzone, Bianca Marisa ^a   Gotta, Cristina ^b   Bentivoglio, Giorgio ^a   Ragni, Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hepatitis C; Pregnancy; Vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

MATERNAL ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; CLEARANCE; DELIVERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIREMIA; VIRUS LOAD; BLOOD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ITALY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, VIRAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; VIREMIA;

EID: 0037363724     PISSN: 00016349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0412.2003.00107.x     Document Type: Article

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