Hepatitis C Virus Infection in A Community in the Nile Delta: Risk Factors for Seropositivity

Habib, Mostafa; K. Mohamed, Mostafa; Abdel‐Aziz, Fatma; S. Magder, Laurence; Abdel‐Hamid, Mohamed; Gamil, F; Madkour, Salah; Mikhail, Nabiel; A. Anwar, Wagida; Thomas Strickland, G.; Fix, Alan; Sallam, Ismail

doi:10.1053/jhep.2001.20797

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Hepatitis C Virus Infection in A Community in the Nile Delta: Risk Factors for Seropositivity

Published in Hepatology • Jan 1, 2001

Authors:

Mostafa Habib

Mostafa K. Mohamed

Fatma Abdel‐Aziz

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify risk factors for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in a rural village in the Nile Delta with a high prevalence of antibodies to HCV (anti-HCV). One half of the village households were systematically selected, tested for anti-HCV, and interviewed: 973 of 3,99...

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Medicine

Hepatitis C virus

Internal medicine

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