Prevalence of hepatitis C virus among HIV-infected patients

Prevalence of hepatitis C virus among HIV-infected patients

Background and Objectives: Hepatitis C virus and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) share the same rate of transmission. HIV/HCV co-infected individuals may result in faster progression of liver fibrosis and highly increase the risk of cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma development. Thus this stud...

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Main Authors: Elham Zayedi, Manoochehr Makvandi, Ali Teimoori, Ali Reza Samarbaf-Zadeh, Shokouh Ghafari, Seyed Saeed Seyedian, Azarakhsh Azaran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2020-04-01
Series:Iranian Journal of Microbiology
Subjects:
Hepatitis C virus; Human immunodeficiency virus; Nested polymerase chain reaction
Online Access:https://ijm.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijm/article/view/2353

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