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Epidemiology of hepatitis C virus infection in Australia.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Feb 2003
Dore Gregory J, Law Matthew, MacDonald Margaret, Kaldor John M
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BACKGROUND: Since the discovery in 1989 of hepatitis C virus (HCV) as the infectious agent responsible for the vast majority of post-transfusion non-A non-B hepatitis the patterns of transmission and clinical consequences of this highly prevalent flavivirus have been widely studied. OBJECTIVE: This paper reviews available evidence on the epidemiology of HCV infection in Australia, including HCV notification data...
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