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[Epidemiologic study of infection by hepatitis C virus in a hemodialysis unit].
Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica - 1 Dec 2000
Pena M J, Molina L, Hortal L, Gallego R, Rodríguez J L, Pérez M C, Palop L, Fiuza M D, Lafarga B
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OBJECTIVE: To analyze the prevalence of infection, the frequency of HCV genotypes and the epidemiology characteristics among the patients in hemodialysis treatment in one 25 years old hospital hemodialysis center and one 15 years old secondary unit by a transversal cross-section study in 1998. PATIENTS AND METHODS: 171 hemodialyzed-patients were studied. Patients sera were analyzed by the presence of HCV...
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