Prevalence of occult hepatitis C infection in chronic hemodialysis and kidney transplant patients

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 928-933

  Baid Agrawal, Seema ^a   Schindler, Ralf ^a   Reinke, Petra ^a   Staedtler, Adrienne ^b   Rimpler, Sunda ^c   Malik, Barbara ^a   Frei, Ulrich ^a   Berg, Thomas ^d  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b SANA KLINIKUM OFFENBACH   (Germany)

^c Vivantes Wenckebach Klinikum   (Germany)

^d Dept of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Campus Virchow Klinikum Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Anti HCV; HCV; HCV RNA; Hemodialysis; Kidney transplant; Occult hepatitis C; PBMC; Peripheral blood mononuclear cells; Prevalence; TMA

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PREVALENCE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; VERY ELDERLY; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RENAL DIALYSIS; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 84898835246     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2014.01.012     Document Type: Article

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