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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...
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 |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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