[en] Patients at risk for hepatitis C (HCV) are those exposed to a major risk factor (i.e. blood transfusion prior 1990, and intravenous drug abuse), and those exposed to a minor risk factor (sexual, mother-to-infant transmission, household contact, nosocomial contamination). The present paper aims to review the current and past modes of transmission of the virus C.
Disciplines :
Gastroenterology & hepatology
Author, co-author :
Delwaide, Jean ; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Gastro-Entérologie-Hépatologie
Bourgeois, N.
Colle, I.
Robaeys, G.
Language :
English
Title :
Risk factors for hepatitis C: past, present and future
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