Background & Aims: Pegylated interferon therapy has not been adequately evaluated in
acute hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. This randomized trial assessed the efficacy, safety …

Spontaneous resolution of acute hepatitis C virus infection cannot be predicted, and chronic
evolution of the disease occurs in a majority of cases. To assess the efficacy and safety of …

It is generally agreed that the hepatitis C virus (HCV) can be efficiently transmitted
parenterally, although data on viral transmission by sexual or non-sexual intrafamilial …

Estimated hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection rates in the general populations were 1.3, 0.9,
0.4–1.0, 14.7, 0.1–0.3, 0.9–1.9, 1.0–2.0, 5, 4.4–8.6 and 0.5–1.3% in Australia, Bangladesh …

Improved surveillance methods are needed to better understand the current hepatitis C virus
(HCV) disease burden and to monitor the impact of prevention and treatment interventions …

The role of sexual or intrafamilial transmission of hepatitis C is controversial. A phylogenetic
analysis was performed on the non-structural region 5B of the hepatitis C virus (NS5B-HCV) …

In this study, the first complete genome sequences for hepatitis C virus (HCV) subtypes 6f,
6i, 6j and 6m, obtained from infected blood donors in Chiang Mai, Thailand, are reported …

Aim: Liver disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among Egyptians. The major
cause is infection with HCV, with 70 000 up to 140 000 newly reported cases annually. The …

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) can be transmitted within a family, but an interspousal transmission
in elderly cases is rare and the change of viral quasispecies during the event is unclear. We …

It is unknown whether hepatitis C virus (HCV)‐specific cellular immune responses can
develop in seronegative sexual partners of chronically HCV‐infected patients and whether …