Hepatitis C virus in populations at risk for infection: Venezuela;Virus de hepatitis C en poblaciones de riesgo a adquirir la infección. Venezuela

Revista Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivas

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 315-319

  Monsalve Castillo, Francisca ^a,b   Gomez Gamboa L ^b   Albillos, A ^c   Alvarez Mon M ^c   Costa Leon L ^a   Araujo Soto, M ^a   Porto Espinoza, L ^a   Garcia Pavon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DEL ZULIA   (Venezuela)

^b Industria Procesadora CA San Francisco ^*  (Venezuela)

^c HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Drugs user; Hemodialysis patients; Hepatitis C; Prevalence; Sex workers

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DRUG ABUSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSTITUTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; VENEZUELA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; BLOOD; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RISK; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTITUTION; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK; RNA, VIRAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; VENEZUELA;

EID: 35848950445     PISSN: 11300108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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