Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is acquired through transfusion of infected blood or blood
products or through routes not related to transfusion, classified as communityacquired …

Abstract The Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) convened an
international working party on the “APASL Consensus Statements and Management …

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an RNA virus that affects> 180 million individuals worldwide with a
high propensity for chronic infection. Children with HCV infection differ from adults in several …

The risk of sexual transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection was evaluated among
895 monogamous heterosexual partners of HCV chronically infected individuals in a long …

The objective of this study was to examine the expression of TLR by human primary uterine
epithelial cells (UEC) and to determine whether exposure to the TLR agonist poly (I: C) …

Background/Aims: This study assess prevalence, risk factors, and clinical and virological
features of dual hepatitis B virus (HBV)/hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Methods: We …

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a significant contemporary health problem in the United
States and elsewhere. Because it is primarily transmitted via blood, hepatitis C infection …

BACKGROUND/AIMS: As evidence accumulates relating to mother-to-child (vertical)
transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV), it is timely to draw up guidelines for the clinical …

Intranasal transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) via contaminated drug-sniffing implements
is a potential but unconfirmed source of viral infection. We demonstrate the virological …

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) isolates have been classified into six main genotypes. Genotyping
methods, and especially the widely used line probe assay (LiPA), are frequently based on …