Epidemiology of hepatitis C

The Risk of Transfusion-Transmitted Viral Infections

1996 • 1,893 citations

Recommendations for Prevention and Control of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Infection and HCV-Related Chronic Disease

1998 • 1,246 citations

Foundations of Epidemiology.

1977 • 1,201 citations

Prevention of Hepatitis A Through Active or Passive Immunization: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)

1999 • 947 citations

Viral infections in short-term injection drug users: the prevalence of the hepatitis C, hepatitis B, human immunodeficiency, and human T-lymphotropic viruses.

1996 • 705 citations

Routes of Infection, Viremia, and Liver Disease in Blood Donors Found to Have Hepatitis C Virus Infection

1996 • 649 citations

Risk Factors for Acute Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis in the United States and Association With Hepatitis C Virus Infection

1990 • 597 citations

Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Post-Transfusion Hepatitis

1991 • 538 citations

Epidemiology of Hepatitis C in the West

1995 • 506 citations

Patient-to-Patient Transmission of Hepatitis C Virus during Colonoscopy

1997 • 446 citations

Hepatitis C virus infection in medical personnel after needlestick accident

1992 • 425 citations

Importance of Heterosexual Activity in the Transmission of Hepatitis B and Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis

1989 • 422 citations

Transmission of Hepatitis C Virus by a Cardiac Surgeon

1996 • 373 citations

Prevalence, risk factors, and genotype distribution of hepatitis C virus infection in the general population: A community-based survey in southern Italy

1997 • 371 citations

Prevalence and Incidence of Hepatitis C Virus Infection Among Young Adult Injection Drug Users

1998 • 354 citations

Sexual Transmission of Hepatitis C Virus among Patients Attending Sexually Transmitted Diseases Clinics in Baltimore--An Analysis of 309 Sex Partnerships

1995 • 255 citations

Perinatal Transmission of Hepatitis C Virus from Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1‐Infected Mothers

1998 • 244 citations

The relationship between therapeutic injections and high prevalence of hepatitis C infection in Hafizabad, Pakistan

1997 • 232 citations

Incidence and risk factors for hepatitis C among injection drug users in Baltimore, Maryland

1997 • 228 citations

Sporadic Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis: Frequency and Epidemiology in an Urban U.S. Population

1982 • 224 citations

THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ACUTE AND CHRONIC HEPATITIS C

1997 • 217 citations

Risk of hepatitis C seroconversion after occupational exposures in health care workers*1

1995 • 201 citations

Frequent patient-to-patient transmission of hepatitis C virus in a haematology ward

1995 • 201 citations

Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Healthcare Workers: Risk of Exposure and Infection

1994 • 184 citations

Effect of Immune Globulin on the Prevention of Experimental Hepatitis C Virus Infection

1996 • 179 citations

Risk Factors Associated with a High Seroprevalence of Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Egyptian Blood Donors

1993 • 175 citations

Transmission of hepatitis C in an isolated area in Japan: Community-acquired infection

1994 • 159 citations

Hepatitis C virus infection among a cohort of Victorian injecting drug users

1993 • 156 citations

High Seroprevalence of Hepatitis C Infection among Risk Groups in Egypt

1994 • 145 citations

Risk factors for hepatitis C virus infection among health care personnel in a community hospital

1993 • 131 citations

Occupational risk of hepatitis C infections among general dentists and oral surgeons in North America

1996 • 130 citations

Beauty Treatments and Risk of Parenterally Transmitted Hepatitis: Results from the Hepatitis Surveillance System in Italy

1995 • 127 citations

Risk factors in community-acquired chronic hepatitis C virus infection: a case-control study in Italy

1996 • 123 citations

Viral hepatitis in health care personnel at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. The seroprevalence of and risk factors for hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus infection.

1993 • 121 citations

High prevalence of hepatitis C virus infection in a small central Italian town: lack of evidence of parenteral exposure.

1995 • 111 citations

Risk factors for hepatitis C virus infection in blood donors: a case‐control study

1992 • 109 citations

Injections: A fatal attraction?

1990 • 109 citations

Risk factors for HIV infection among abandoned Romanian children

1993 • 102 citations

Serosurvey of human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus infection among hospital-based surgeons

1995 • 98 citations

Prevention of HIV/AIDS and other blood-borne diseases among injection drug users. A national survey on the regulation of syringes and needles.

1997 • 97 citations

The interferon system in acute and chronic viral hepatitis.

1986 • 86 citations

Interferon as treatment for acute hepatitis C

1996 • 85 citations

Prevalence of Antibody to Hepatitis C Virus in Japanese Schoolchildren: Comparison with Adult Blood Donors

1992 • 72 citations

Spread of hepatitis C virus infection within families

1998 • 64 citations

Nosocomial transmission of hepatitis C virus

1997 • 63 citations

Routes of Transimission of Hepatitis C Virus in an Endemic Rural Area of Japan : Molecular Epidemiologic Study of Hepatitis C Virus Infection

1997 • 60 citations

Hepatitis C Virus in the Hemodialysis Setting: A Review with Recommendations for Control

1994 • 54 citations

Seroprevalence of Antibodies to Hepatitis C Virus in High-Risk Hospital Personnel

1992 • 52 citations

Non-A, non-B posttransfusion hepatitis: Comparing C and non-C hepatitis

1993 • 49 citations

Prevention of HIV/AIDS and Other Blood-Borne Diseases Among Injection Drug Users

1997 • 48 citations

Risk factors for acute non-A, non-B hepatitis and their relationship to antibodies for hepatitis C virus: a case-control study.

1994 • 45 citations

A High Risk of Hepatitis C Infection among Egyptian Blood Donors: The Role of Parenteral Drug Abuse

1995 • 43 citations

Massive Sero–epidemiological Survey of Hepatitis C Virus: Clustering of Carriers on the Southwest Coast of Tsushima, Japan

1991 • 40 citations

Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis among Participants in a Plasmapheresis Stimulation Program

1979 • 35 citations

Study of the risk factors for viral hepatitis C infection among Egyptians applying for work abroad.

1996 • 34 citations

Hepatitis C virus infection in households of anti-HCV chronic carriers in Italy: A multicentre case-control study

1997 • 30 citations

Hepatitis C virus infection in Victorian injecting drug users in 1971

1993 • 30 citations

Prevalence of Inhabitants with Anti-Hepatitis C Virus Antibody in an Area Following an Acute Hepatitis C Epidemic : Age-and Area-Related Features

1996 • 29 citations

The Risk of Hepatitis C Virus Infection Among Blood Donors in Osaka, Japan

1998 • 21 citations

Epidemiology of hepatitis C virus infection in Australia

1993 • 20 citations