Epidemiological features and specificities of HCV infection: a hospital-based cohort study in a university medical center of Calabria region

The epidemiological status of HCV in Europe, and in particular in Mediterranean countries, is continuously evolving. The genotype distribution is related to improvement of healthcare conditions, expansion of intravenous drug use and immigration. We review and characterize the epidemiology of the dis...

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Autores principales: Liberto, MC, Marascio, N, Zicca, E, Matera, G
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3495624/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23173638
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-12-S2-S4
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Marascio, N
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description The epidemiological status of HCV in Europe, and in particular in Mediterranean countries, is continuously evolving. The genotype distribution is related to improvement of healthcare conditions, expansion of intravenous drug use and immigration. We review and characterize the epidemiology of the distribution of HCV genotypes within Calabria, an area of Southern Italy. We focus on the pattern of distinct HCV genotype changes over the last 16 years; particularly subtype 1b and genotype 4. We collected data by evaluating a hospital-based cohort of chronic hepatitis C patients; in addition, we report an update including new patients enrolled during last eight months.
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spelling pubmed-34956242012-11-19 Epidemiological features and specificities of HCV infection: a hospital-based cohort study in a university medical center of Calabria region Liberto, MC Marascio, N Zicca, E Matera, G BMC Infect Dis Review The epidemiological status of HCV in Europe, and in particular in Mediterranean countries, is continuously evolving. The genotype distribution is related to improvement of healthcare conditions, expansion of intravenous drug use and immigration. We review and characterize the epidemiology of the distribution of HCV genotypes within Calabria, an area of Southern Italy. We focus on the pattern of distinct HCV genotype changes over the last 16 years; particularly subtype 1b and genotype 4. We collected data by evaluating a hospital-based cohort of chronic hepatitis C patients; in addition, we report an update including new patients enrolled during last eight months. BioMed Central 2012-11-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3495624/ /pubmed/23173638 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-12-S2-S4 Text en Copyright ©2012 Liberto et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Liberto, MC
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Epidemiological features and specificities of HCV infection: a hospital-based cohort study in a university medical center of Calabria region
title Epidemiological features and specificities of HCV infection: a hospital-based cohort study in a university medical center of Calabria region
title_full Epidemiological features and specificities of HCV infection: a hospital-based cohort study in a university medical center of Calabria region
title_fullStr Epidemiological features and specificities of HCV infection: a hospital-based cohort study in a university medical center of Calabria region
title_full_unstemmed Epidemiological features and specificities of HCV infection: a hospital-based cohort study in a university medical center of Calabria region
title_short Epidemiological features and specificities of HCV infection: a hospital-based cohort study in a university medical center of Calabria region
title_sort epidemiological features and specificities of hcv infection: a hospital-based cohort study in a university medical center of calabria region
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