Prevalence and follow-up of Occult HCV infection in an Italian population free of clinically detectable infectious liver disease

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  de Marco, Laura ^a   Manzini, Paola ^b   Trevisan, Morena ^a   Gillio Tos, Anna ^a   Danielle, Franca ^b   Balloco, Cinzia ^b   Pizzi, Alessandra ^b   de Filippo, Eleonora ^b   D'Antico, Sergio ^b   Violante, Beatrice ^b   Valfrè, Adriano ^b   Curti, Franco ^b   Merletti, Franco ^a   Richiardi, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b Blood Bank   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIVER ENZYME; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFECTIOUS HEPATITIS; ITALIAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCULT HEPATITIS C VIRUS INFECTION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PHLEBOTOMY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; SEROCONVERSION; SEROLOGY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS LOAD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; ITALY; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 84865182130     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043541     Document Type: Article

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