Senior Center-Based Hepatitis C Screening in Baltimore

Despite significant advancements in hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatments, the majority of individuals infected with HCV remain undiagnosed. We report on senior citizen center-based HCV testing in Baltimore, which revealed a 9.4% prevalence of infection. Our data suggest that community-based HCV testin...

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Autores principales: Falade-Nwulia, Oluwaseun, Irvin, Risha, McAdams-Mahmoud, Ayesha, Mehta, Shruti H., Niculescu, Alexander, Lasola, Jackline, Baker, Dorcas, Eppel, Arnold, Chaulk, Patrick, Page, Kathleen R., Sulkowski, Mark, Thomas, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Brief Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4753348/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26885546
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofv217
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author Falade-Nwulia, Oluwaseun
Irvin, Risha
McAdams-Mahmoud, Ayesha
Mehta, Shruti H.
Niculescu, Alexander
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Baker, Dorcas
Eppel, Arnold
Chaulk, Patrick
Page, Kathleen R.
Sulkowski, Mark
Thomas, David
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description Despite significant advancements in hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatments, the majority of individuals infected with HCV remain undiagnosed. We report on senior citizen center-based HCV testing in Baltimore, which revealed a 9.4% prevalence of infection. Our data suggest that community-based HCV testing and linkage to care in appropriate settings is feasible and high yield.
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spelling pubmed-47533482016-02-16 Senior Center-Based Hepatitis C Screening in Baltimore Falade-Nwulia, Oluwaseun Irvin, Risha McAdams-Mahmoud, Ayesha Mehta, Shruti H. Niculescu, Alexander Lasola, Jackline Baker, Dorcas Eppel, Arnold Chaulk, Patrick Page, Kathleen R. Sulkowski, Mark Thomas, David Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Reports Despite significant advancements in hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatments, the majority of individuals infected with HCV remain undiagnosed. We report on senior citizen center-based HCV testing in Baltimore, which revealed a 9.4% prevalence of infection. Our data suggest that community-based HCV testing and linkage to care in appropriate settings is feasible and high yield. Oxford University Press 2016-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4753348/ /pubmed/26885546 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofv217 Text en © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com.
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Page, Kathleen R.
Sulkowski, Mark
Thomas, David
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