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Clinical implications of mother‐to‐child transmission of HCV
Author(s) -
Kesson Alison M
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2005.tb01905.x
Subject(s) - medicine , transmission (telecommunications) , hepatitis c virus , pediatrics , identification (biology) , virology , virus , botany , electrical engineering , biology , engineering
Testing for vertical transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in infants and children will enable early identification of the majority of uninfected HCV‐exposed infants and children, and will provide significant emotional relief for the parents.