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Trends in Microbiology, 2019 Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an enveloped, RNA virus transmitted through blood-to-blood contact. It infects humans only and primarily targets liver cells. HCV evades innate and adaptive immunity and establishes chronic infections in 70% of cases. If untreated, 20% of patients develop liver cirrhosis, and a fraction of these progress to hepatocellular ...
Pietschmann, Thomas, Brown, Richard J P
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Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2013 Objectives: Progression of hepatic fibrosis is accelerated in patients co-infected with human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C virus compared to hepatitis C virus mono-infected patients.
Denise Cerqueira Paranaguá Vezozzo +8 more
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Women's Health, 2021 Background: There are no national data on hepatitis C virus awareness and burden among pregnant women to justify its routine screening. Objectives: To investigate awareness, seroprevalence and risk factors for hepatitis C virus infection among pregnant ...
George Uchenna Eleje +42 more
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Archives of Medical Science, 2020 Introduction Infections such as viral hepatitis and syphilis that share similar transmission routes with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) may adversely affect the course of the disease.
Heval Can Bilek +2 more
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Hepatitis C virus core antigen assay: can we think beyond convention in resource limited settings?
Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2013 Hepatitis C virus infects over 15 million patients from India and 2.86 million from Brazil. Detection of anti-hepatitis C virus antibodies has limited sensitivity during acute phase: the pre-seroconversion window period.
Anita Chakravarti +3 more
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Archives of Virology, 1991 HepCV is the major cause of NANB PT hepatitis and is also implicated as the cause in a large proportion of sporadic cases of NANBH. Chronic infection with HepCV has also been linked to the development of hepatocellular carcinoma. Chimpanzees and marmosets are the only animals found to be experimentally infectable and the virus has not been propagated ...
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Hepatitis C virus biology [PDF]
Cell Death & Differentiation, 2003 Hepatitis C virus infection represents a major problem of public health with around 350 millions of chronically infected individuals worldwide. The frequent evolution towards severe liver disease and cancer are the main features of HCV chronic infection.
GIANNINI, CARLO, Brechot C.
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Hepatitis C Virus and Hepatitis B Virus Co-Infection
Viruses, 2020 Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) co-infection can be encountered in either virus endemic countries. Co-infection can also be found in populations at risk of parenteral transmission.
Yi-Fen Shih, Chun-Jen Liu
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‘It’s been a long haul, a big haul, but we’ve made it’: hepatitis C virus treatment in post-transplant patients with virus recurrence: An interpretative phenomenological analysis [PDF]
, 2018 The lived experience of both interferon-based and new interferon-free treatments in patients with hepatitis C virus remains understudied. To explore their journey through hepatitis C virus treatment, we interviewed seven post-transplant patients with ...
Chouliara, Zoe +4 more
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Rad51 Interacts with Non-structural 3 Protein of Hepatitis C Virus and Regulates Viral Production
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017 Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a leading cause of chronic liver disease affecting over 170 million people worldwide. Chronic infection with HCV progresses to liver fibrosis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma.
Kidong Son +13 more
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