Primer on Hepatitis C for Hospital Epidemiologists •
- 1 March 2000
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
- Vol. 21 (3) , 229-234
- https://doi.org/10.1086/501752
Abstract
First identified in the late 1980s as the main causative agent of non‐A, non‐B hepatitis, hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is now the most common chro...Keywords
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