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Mother-to-infant transmission of hepatitis C virus.
Italian journal of gastroenterology and hepatology - 1 Jan 2000
Resti M
Abstract excerpt
Since the programme of the hepatitis B virus vaccination started, hepatitis C virus has become the most significant cause of chronic liver disease of infectious aetiology in paediatric age. After the introduction of hepatitis C virus screening of blood units, vertical transmission seems to now be the most common route of hepatitis C virus infection in children. According to studies on infants born to...
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