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Prospective study of mother-to-infant transmission of hepatitis C virus

DOI

95

Citations

23

References

2001

Year

Hitoshi Tajiri, Yoko Miyoshi, SHUNPEI FUNADA, Yuri Etani, Jiro Abe, Takashi Onodera, Megumi Goto, Masahisa Funato, Shinobu Ida, Chieko Noda,
The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Abstract

Our prospective study showed that the transmission rate of mother-to-infant HCV infection was 7.8% in anti-HCV antibody-positive mothers. Risk was related to the presence of maternal HCV viremia at delivery and a high viral load in the mothers.

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