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Prevalence of hepatitis C virus in adult population in the Czech Republic - time for birth cohort screening.

PloS one - 1 Jan 2017

Chlibek Roman, Smetana Jan, Sosovickova Renata, Gal Peter, Dite Petr, Stepanova Vlasta, Pliskova Lenka, Plisek Stanislav

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Chronic hepatitis C is curable disease. Low detection rate could be one of the reasons of poor treatment uptake. It is important to identify HCV prevalence and anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) positive patients in population by effective screening strategy such as risk-based or birth cohort screening programs. There are no national population-based estimates of the HCV prevalence in the Czech Republic (CZ). The most...

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PMID: 28406947
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175525
PMCID: PMC5391198

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