Higher risk of incident hepatitis c virus coinfection among men who have sex with men, in whom the hiv genetic bottleneck at transmission was wide

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 210, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1555-1561

  Kouyos, Roger D ^a   Rauch, Andri ^e   Braun, Dominique L ^d   Yang, Wan Lin ^d   Böni, Jürg ^c   Yerly, Sabine ^f   Klimkait, Thomas ⁱ   Aubert, Vincent ^j   Shah, Cyril ^a   Kovari, Helen ^b   Calmy, Alexandra ^c   Cavassini, Matthias ^d   Battegay, Manuel ^f   Vernazza, Pietro L ^h   Bernasconi, Enos ^g   Ledergerber, Bruno ^d   Günthard, Huldrych F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^h LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

ⁱ CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^j REGIONAL HOSPITAL OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

coinfection; hepatitis C virus; HIV; sexual transmission.; transmission bottleneck

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; MALE; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEROCONVERSION; SEROLOGY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SWITZERLAND; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ADULT; COINFECTION; COMPLICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; PREVALENCE; TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; COINFECTION; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84912095662     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiu315     Document Type: Article

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