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Treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus infection among Brazilian haemophiliacs.
The Brazilian journal of infectious diseases : an official publication of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases - 1 Feb 2008
Pereira Graziella Hanna, Mangini Cláudia
Abstract excerpt
Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is now the most important cause of liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma worldwide. HCV infection prevalence is high among haemophiliacs (39%-98%), who got infected when received inadequately or non-virus-inactivated large-pool clotting factors concentrates before 1992. Current treatment reduces the probability of developing advanced stages of liver disease. The...
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