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A comparison of two biological markers of recent hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection: implications for the monitoring of interventions and strategies to reduce HCV transmission among people who inject drugs

BACKGROUND: Monitoring hepatitis C virus (HCV) incidence is important for assessing intervention impact. Longitudinal studies of people who inject drugs (PWID), using repeated biological tests, are costly; alternatively, incidence can be estimated using biological markers of recent infection in cros...

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Autores principales: Hope, Vivian D, Harris, Ross J, Vickerman, Peter, Platt, Lucy, Shute, Justin, Cullen, Katelyn J, Ijaz, Samreen, Mandal, Sema, Ncube, Fortune, Desai, Monica, Parry, John V
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6341939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30482265
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.47.1700635