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Drug use and phylogenetic clustering of hepatitis C virus infection among people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada: A latent class analysis approach.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 Jan 2018
Jacka B, Bray B C, Applegate T L, Marshall B D L, Lima V D, Hayashi K, DeBeck K, Raghwani J, Harrigan P R, Krajden M, Montaner J S G, Grebely J
Abstract excerpt
This study estimated latent classes (ie, unobserved subgroups in a population) of people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada, and examined how these classes relate to phylogenetic clustering of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. HCV antibody-positive people who use drugs from two cohorts in Vancouver, Canada (1996-2012), with a Core-E2 sequence were included. Time-stamped phylogenetic trees were inferred, and...
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