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The "hidden" epidemic: a snapshot of Moroccan intravenous drug users.

Virology journal - 6 Mar 2014

Trimbitas Roxana-Delia, Serghini Fatima Zahra, Lazaar Fatiha, Baha Warda, Foullous Abderrahim, Essalhi Mohammed, El Malki Abdelouahed, Meziane Bellefquih Abdelkrim, Bennani Abdelouaheb

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BACKGROUND: Hepatitis C virus is a persistent epidemiological problem, with an estimated 170 million individuals infected worldwide, and the leading cause of asymptomatic chronic infection, liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Injection drug users (IDUs) have the highest seroprevalence as compared to chronic hemodialysis and transfusion patients, and this cohort remains the most under-studied high-risk...

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PMID: 24602336
DOI: 10.1186/1743-422X-11-43
PMCID: PMC3995948

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