Hepatitis C and hemodialysis: a review

Hepatitis C is a serious public health problem throughout the world; chronic renal patients are highly exposed to this infection. This could be due to a failure to identify carriers of this disease or because of a lack of truly effective biosafety measures implemented in the dialysis units. Molecula...

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Main Authors: Regina Célia Moreira, Marcilio Figueiredo Lemos, Carlos Alberto Longui, Celso Granato
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702005000400001&lng=en&tlng=en