Intrafamilial transmission of hepatitis C virus: a systematic review

An Assay for Circulating Antibodies to a Major Etiologic Virus of Human Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis

1989 • 3,401 citations

The Natural History of Community-Acquired Hepatitis C in the United States

1992 • 1,614 citations

Systematic Reviews: Rationale for systematic reviews

1994 • 1,609 citations

meta-analysis bias in location and selection of studies

1998 • 1,311 citations

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

1996 • 649 citations

Systematic Reviews: Checklists for review articles

1994 • 478 citations

Heterosexual Co-transmission of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

1991 • 312 citations

High Rate of Infectivity and Liver Disease in Blood Donors with Antibodies to Hepatitis C Virus

1991 • 290 citations

On the Role of Sexual Behavior in the Spread of Hepatitis B Infection

1975 • 275 citations

Hepatitis C-associated hepatocellular carcinoma

1990 • 248 citations

Role of Saliva, Urine and Feces in the Transmission of Type B Hepatitis

1974 • 241 citations

Sexual transmission of hepatitis C virus

1993 • 234 citations

Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Spouses of Patients with Type C Chronic Liver Disease

1994 • 176 citations

Hepatitis C viral RNA in serum of patients with chronic non-A, non-B hepatitis: Detection by the polymerase chain reaction using multiple primer sets

1991 • 171 citations

Transmission of hepatitis C virus to children and husbands by women infected with contaminated anti-D immunoglobulin

1995 • 158 citations

Intrafamilial Transmission of Hepatitis C Virus: The Important Role of Infections between Spouses

1992 • 147 citations

The low risk of hepatitis C virus transmission among sexual partners of hepatitis C-infected hemophilic males: an international, multicenter study

1992 • 141 citations

HEPATITIS B VIRUS INFECTION IN CHINESE FAMILIES IN HONGKONG

1987 • 137 citations

Lack of evidence for the heterosexual transmission of hepatitis C.

1992 • 105 citations

Quantitative Analysis of Hepatitis B Virus DNA in Saliva and Semen of Chronically Infected Homosexual Men

1987 • 99 citations

Molecular analysis of intraspousal transmission of hepatitis C virus

1995 • 91 citations

Transmission of hepatitis C virus by health care workers in a rural area of Japan.

1995 • 87 citations

Transmission of hepatitis C virus between spouses: the important role of exposure duration.

1996 • 84 citations

Hepatitis B virus DNA in saliva, urine, and seminal fluid of carriers of hepatitis B e antigen.

1985 • 80 citations

Low risk of sexual transmission of hepatitis C virus

1993 • 77 citations

Intrafamilial transmission of hepatitis C virus: The important role of inapparent transmission

1994 • 75 citations

Heterosexual transmission of hepatitis C virus and the possible role of coexistent human immunodeficiency virus infection in the index case: A multicentre study of 423 pairings

1994 • 68 citations

Methods of transmission of hepatitis C

1995 • 67 citations

Risk of hepatitis C virus infections through household contact with chronic carriers: Analysis of nucleotide sequences

1993 • 67 citations

Systematic Reviews: Some examples

1994 • 63 citations

Hepatitis C virus infection among sexually promiscuous groups and the heterosexual partners of hepatitis C virus infected index cases

1993 • 61 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

Risk Factor Exposure Among Hepatitis C Virus RNA Positive Swedish Blood Donors - The Role of Parenteral and Sexual Transmission

1995 • 53 citations

Intrafamily transmission of hepatitis C virus: sexual and non-sexual contacts

1996 • 53 citations

Brief report: Sexual transmission of hepatitis C

1994 • 52 citations

Acute hepatitis C infection after sexual exposure.

1995 • 51 citations

Search for intrafamilial transmission of hepatitis C virus in hemophilia patients

1993 • 47 citations

Heterosexual transmission of hepatitis C virus in family groups without risk factors.

1992 • 41 citations

Prevalence of hepatitis C virus in family members of patients with Hepatitis C

1993 • 40 citations

Intrafamilial transmission of hepatitis C virus in hemodialysis patients

1995 • 40 citations

Familial clustering of hepatitis B and C viruses in Korea

1994 • 36 citations

High Prevalence of Antibodies to Hepatitis C Virus among Family Members of Patients with Anti-HCV-Positive Chronic Liver Disease

1993 • 33 citations

Lack of intrafamilial transmission of hepatitis C virus in family members of children with chronic hepatitis C infection

1994 • 30 citations

Hepatitis C Virus in Dialysis Units: A Multicenter Study

1992 • 29 citations

Prevalence of antibodies to hepatitis C virus among family members of patients with chronic hepatitis C

1993 • 29 citations

HCV transmission in family members of subjects with HCV related chronic liver disease

1996 • 27 citations

Hepatitis C virus in various human body fluids: a systematic review

1998 • 27 citations

Hepatitis C transmission on the north coast of New South Wales: explaining the unexplained

1997 • 26 citations

Horizontal transmission of hepatitis C virus in households of infected children

1993 • 24 citations

Sexual transmission of hepatitis C virus infection

1996 • 24 citations

Prevalence of hepatitis C virus infection in the household contacts of patients with HCV-related chronic liver disease

1994 • 23 citations

Prevalence of Antibodies against Hepatitis C Virus in a Dialysis Unit

1992 • 21 citations

Epidemiological Studies on Hepatitis C Virus Infection: Detection, Prevalence, Exposure and Prevention

1994 • 21 citations

Hepatitis C virus variants and the role of genotyping.

1995 • 20 citations

Intrafamilial Spread of Hepatitis C Virus Infection

1994 • 20 citations

Analysis of nucleotide sequences of hepatitis C virus isolates from husband–wife pairs

1994 • 20 citations

Intrafamilial transmission of hepatitis C virus

1994 • 17 citations

Prevalence of hepatitis C virus related to liver diseases in Korea

1993 • 17 citations

Prevalence of hepatitis C virus infections in dialysis patients and their contacts using a second generation enzymed-linked immunosorbent assay

1992 • 16 citations

Risk of hepatitis C virus infection among household contacts of Saudi patients with chronic liver disease

1996 • 13 citations

HCV Infection Occupational Hazard at Dialysis Units and Virus Spread, among Relatives of Dialyzed Patients

1992 • 12 citations

[Familial transmission of hepatitis C virus].

1995 • 10 citations

Prevalence of anti-HCV antibody in family members of anti-HCV-positive patients with acute and chronic liver disease.

1992 • 10 citations

Lack of Transmission of Hepatitis C in Household Contacts of Children with Homozygous β-Thalassaemia

1997 • 9 citations

Intrafamilial transmission of hepatitis C virus

1994 • 8 citations

Low rate of HCV transmission from women infected with contaminated anti-D immunoglobulin to their family contacts.

1997 • 7 citations

Hepatitis C virus infection in family members of chronic carriers.

1996 • 6 citations

Low incidence of intraspousal transmission of hepatitis C virus after liver transplantation

1995 • 4 citations

Intrafamilial clustering of genotypes of hepatitis C virus RNA.

1994 • 3 citations

[Transmission routes of hepatitis C virus in carrier patients and study of family contacts].

1997 • 2 citations

[Hepatitis C in primary care: a study of carriers and their families].

1994 • 2 citations

[Familial transmission of hepatitis C virus].

1996 • 2 citations

High rate of hepatitis C virus transmission to spouses from hepatitis patients with a history of transfusion

1994 • 1 citations