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Sex, Drugs, and Hepatitis C Virus

Author(s) -

Judith A. Hahn

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

the journal of infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.69

H-Index - 252

eISSN - 1537-6613

pISSN - 0022-1899

DOI - 10.1086/516792

Subject(s) - virology , medicine , virus , hepatitis c virus

mission of HCV. Because the pool of infected persons is very large (the World Health Organization estimates that 170 million people worldwide are infected with HCV) and sexual intercourse is common, even a low rate of sexual transmission can account for a large number of new cases. This explains why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) does not recommend condom use for longterm serodiscordant heterosexual couples to prevent HCV transmission [1] while attributing 15% of new HCV infections to sexual transmission [2]. The literature about HCV is rife with

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