Epidemic hepatitis C virus infection in Egypt: Estimates of past incidence and future morbidity and mortality

Journal of Viral Hepatitis

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 650-658

  Lehman, Elizabeth M ^a   Wilson, M L ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Indirect incidence; Infectious disease; Liver cancer; Markov model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; DECOMPENSATED LIVER CIRRHOSIS; EGYPT; EPIDEMIC; HEPATITIS C; INCIDENCE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROPREVALENCE; SIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EGYPT; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68949214612     PISSN: 13520504     EISSN: 13652893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2893.2009.01115.x     Document Type: Article

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