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Risk factors for hepatitis C virus infection among Koreans according to the hepatitis C virus genotype.
Journal of Korean medical science - 1 Apr 2002
Kim Young Sik, Ahn Yoon-Ok, Lee Hyo Suk
Abstract excerpt
To investigate risk factors for HCV infection according to the genotype, we studied 178 patients positive for HCV-PCR and 226 controls that were negative for the anti-HCV antibody. One hundred and twenty five controls (community control) were recruited from spouses of HCV-PCR-positive patients and the other 101 from hospital visitors (hospital control). HCV genotyping was performed by PCR, and epidemiological...
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