Prevalence of hepatitis C infection and its associated factors in healthy adults without identifiable route of transmission.

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While hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is long known to be associated with parenteral exposure, the specific route of transmission is not identified in a proportion of infected patients. Taking blood donors as the surrogate of healthy adults in the community in Hong Kong, we identified 91 HCV-infected donors (≤0.02% positive rate) in 2014-2016, of whom 46 were recruited in a mixed-method study to examine their...

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