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The origin of hepatitis C virus.
Current topics in microbiology and immunology - 1 Jan 2013
Simmonds Peter
Abstract excerpt
The origin of hepatitis C virus (HCV) can be conceptualised at several levels. Firstly, origins might refer to its dramatic spread throughout the Western world and developing countries throughout the twentieth century. As a blood-borne virus, this epidemic was fuelled by new parenteral transmission routes associated with medical treatments, immunisation, blood transfusion and more recently injecting drug use. At...
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