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Lack of de novo hepatitis C virus infections and absence of nosocomial transmissions of GB virus C in a large cohort of German haemodialysis patients.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 Apr 2009
Ross R S, Viazov S, Clauberg R, Wolters B, Fengler I, Eveld K, Scheidhauer R, Hüsing J, Philipp Th, Kribben A, Roggendorf M
Abstract excerpt
To determine the prevalence and incidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections among haemodialysis patients, a large prospective multicentre trial was conducted in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia. Sera obtained from the recruited patients in two separate sampling rounds run 1 year apart were analysed for both anti-HCV antibodies and HCV RNA. HCV RNA positive samples were also genotyped by...
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