Transmission of hepatitis C virus infection from asymptomatic mother to child in southern India

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Parthiban, Rudrapathy ^a   Shanmugam, Saravanan ^a,b   Velu, Vijayakumar ^a   Nandakumar, Subhadra ^a   Dhevahi, Elumalai ^a   Thangaraj, Kumarasamy ^c   Nayak, H K ^d   Gupte, Mohan Digambar ^d   Thyagarajan, Sadras Panchatcharam ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

^b The Voluntary Health Services Chennai   (India)

^c CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^d INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^e SRI RAMACHANDRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

HCV genotypes; Hepatitis C virus; Mother to child transmission (MTCT); Vertical perinatal transmission

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; NEWBORN SCREENING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANT WOMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350780156     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2009.01.013     Document Type: Article

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