Extremely High Prevalence and Genetic Diversity of Hepatitis C Virus Infection among HIV‐Infected Injection Drug Users in Taiwan | Zendy

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Extremely High Prevalence and Genetic Diversity of Hepatitis C Virus Infection among HIV‐Infected Injection Drug Users in Taiwan

Author(s) -

JyhYou Liu,

HsiHsun Lin,

YungChing Liu,

Susan ShinJung Lee,

YaLei Chen,

ChienChing Hung,

WenChien Ko,

ChunKai Huang,

ChungHsu Lai,

YaoShen Chen,

YiLi Shih,

ChuanMin Yen,

ShiouHaur Liang,

Jiung Lin

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/587992

Subject(s) - medicine , hepatitis c virus , genotype , population , hepatitis c , virology , viral disease , sida , epidemiology , immunology , cohort , logistic regression , virus , environmental health , biology , biochemistry , gene

An outbreak of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 infection among injection drug users (IDUs) occurred in Taiwan, and thereafter, injection drug use became the most frequent risk factor for HIV infection in Taiwan. We sought to study the prevalence of and genotypes causing hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among HIV-infected IDUs in Taiwan.

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