The tattooing paradox: Are studies of acute hepatitis adequate to identify routes of transmission of subclinical hepatitis C infection?

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 163, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1095-1098

  Haley, Robert W ^a   Fischer, R Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Presbyterian Hositals of Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SERODIAGNOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TATTOO; TATTOOING; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ACUTE DISEASE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TATTOOING;

EID: 0038330730     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.163.9.1095     Document Type: Article

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