Hepatitis C virus infection in Guinea-Bissau: A sexually transmitted genotype 2 with parenteral amplification?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Plamondon, Mireille ^a   Labbé, Annie Claude ^b   Frost, Eric ^a   Deslandes, Sylvie ^a   Alves, Alfredo Claudino ^c   Bastien, Nathalie ^b   Pepin, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b MAISONNEUVE ROSEMONT HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c Simao Mendes Hospital   (Guinea-Bissau)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GUINEA-BISSAU; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS 2; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

PRIMER DNA;

AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GUINEA-BISSAU; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTORS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, VIRAL;

EID: 55449083234     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000372     Document Type: Article

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