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Acute hepatitis C infection after sexual exposure.
Gut - 1 Jan 1995
Healey C J, Smith D B, Walker J L, Holmes E C, Fleming K A, Chapman R W, Simmonds P
Abstract excerpt
A case is described of a woman with acute hepatitis C infection whose partner had chronic hepatitis C infection and where heterosexual contact was the only major risk factor. Infection of both partners was confirmed serologically and by the finding of virus RNA by reverse transcription and polymerase chain reaction amplification. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the NS5 region (RNA polymerase) was used to show...
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