Epidemiology and natural history of hepatitis C virus infection in injection drug users: implications for treatment

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Effective methods to diminish the burden of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among injection drug users (IDUs) require consideration of the epidemiology and natural history of both hepatitis C and drug use. Most HCV infections are due to injection drug use, and most IDUs have HCV infection. In addi …
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Authors Sulkowski MS;Thomas DL;;
Journal Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Year 2005
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National Center for Biotechnology Information NCBI NLM MEDLINE review humans pubmed abstract nih national institutes of health national library of medicine research support u.s. gov't N.I.H. Extramural P.H.S. substance abuse hepatitis c / diagnosis hepatitis c / epidemiology* intravenous / epidemiology prevalence hiv infections / complications liver diseases / diagnosis mass screening / methods delivery of health care / methods* intravenous / complications* david l thomas depression / complications depression / therapy pmid:15768333 doi:10.1086/427440 mark s sulkowski hepatitis c / complications hepatitis c / therapy* liver diseases / therapy intravenous / therapy

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