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Per-Contact Infectivity of Hepatitis C Virus Acquisition in Association With Receptive Needle Sharing Exposures in a Prospective Cohort of Young Adult People who Inject Drugs in San Francisco, California

BACKGROUND: Sharing needles and ancillary injecting equipment is a primary risk exposure for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among people who inject drugs (PWID); however, infectivity of these exposures is not well quantified. We aimed to estimate per-event HCV infectivity associated with receptiv...

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Autores principales: Leyva, Yuridia, Page, Kimberly, Shiboski, Stephen, Hahn, Judith A, Evans, Jennifer, Erhardt, Erik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7162618/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32322601
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa092