Prospective Evaluation of Community‐Acquired Acute‐Phase Hepatitis C Virus Infection
Open Access
- 1 April 2005
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 40 (7), 951-958
- https://doi.org/10.1086/428578
Abstract
Background. More than two-thirds of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections in Western countries are caused by injection drug use, but prospective clinical data regarding the most common mode of HCV acquisition are rare, in part because acute-phase HCV infection is usually asymptomatic.Keywords
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