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Rapid spread of hepatitis C virus among injecting-drug users in the Philippines: Implications for HIV epidemics.

Journal of medical virology - 1 Oct 2005

Agdamag Dorothy M, Kageyama Seiji, Alesna Evelyn T, Solante Rontgene M, Leaño Prisca S, Heredia Anna Marie L, Abellanosa-Tac-An Ilya P, Vibal Eutiquio T, Jereza Lourdes D, Ichimura Hiroshi

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From the trends of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemics in South and Southeast Asia, it was postulated that an HIV epidemic would start as a blood-borne infection among injecting-drug users in the Philippines. In 2002, 560 individuals were recruited in Metro Cebu, Philippines and tested for HIV, hepatitis C virus (HCV), and hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections. The seroprevalence of anti-HCV among...

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PMID: 16121359
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.20439

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