The impact of illicit drug use on spontaneous hepatitis C clearance: experience from a large cohort population study.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Acute hepatitis C infection usually ends in chronic infection, while in a minority of patients it is spontaneously cleared. The current population-based study is performed on a large cohort in Golestan province of Iran to examine the demographic correlates of Spontaneous Hepatit...

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Main Authors: Hossein Poustchi, Saeed Esmaili, Ashraf Mohamadkhani, Aghbibi Nikmahzar, Akram Pourshams, Sadaf G Sepanlou, Shahin Merat, Reza Malekzadeh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3161071?pdf=render