Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Scotland: Epidemiological Review and Public Health Challenges

Isolation of a cDNA cLone Derived from a Blood-Borne Non-A, Non-B Viral Hepatitis Genome

1989 • 6,910 citations

Peginterferon Alfa-2a plus Ribavirin for Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection

2002 • 6,505 citations

Peginterferon alfa-2b plus ribavirin compared with interferon alfa-2b plus ribavirin for initial treatment of chronic hepatitis C: a randomised trial

2001 • 6,133 citations

Natural history of chronic hepatitis C

2002 • 1,460 citations

Global surveillance and control of hepatitis C

1999 • 909 citations

Estimating progression to cirrhosis in chronic hepatitis C virus infection

2001 • 628 citations

Projecting future complications of chronic hepatitis C in the United States

2003 • 583 citations

Estimating future hepatitis C morbidity, mortality, and costs in the United States

2000 • 582 citations

Natural history of chronic hepatitis C

2002 • 538 citations

Aids and injecting drug use in the United Kingdom, 1987–1993: The policy response and the prevention of the epidemic

1995 • 232 citations

Modeling the current and future disease burden of hepatitis C among injection drug users in Scotland

2005 • 121 citations

Prevalence of hepatitis C antibodies in clinical health-care workers

1994 • 114 citations

Prevalence of Hepatitis C Virus Infection Among Injecting Drug Users in Glasgow 1990–1996: are Current Harm Reduction Strategies Working?

2000 • 102 citations

Use of several second generation serological assays to determine the true prevalence of hepatitis C virus infection in haemophiliacs treated with non‐virus inactivated factor VIII and IX concentrates

1992 • 97 citations

HIV and harm reduction for injection drug users

1991 • 94 citations

Absence of hepatitis C virus transmission but frequent transmission of HIV-1 from sexual contact with doubly-infected individuals

1997 • 91 citations

Viral hepatitis in pregnancy.

1993 • 86 citations

Estimating the National and Local Prevalence of Problem Drug Misuse in Scotland

2005 • 77 citations

Conservation of the cag pathogenicity island is associated with vacA alleles and gastroduodenal disease in South African Helicobacter pylori isolates

2001 • 73 citations

Incidence of Hepatitis C Virus Infection and Associated Risk Factors among Scottish Prison Inmates: A Cohort Study

2004 • 70 citations

Patterns of age‐ and sex‐specific prevalence of major blood‐borne infections in United States blood donors, 1995 to 2002: American Red Cross blood donor study

2004 • 68 citations

Methods of transmission of hepatitis C

1995 • 67 citations

Hepatitis C virus among childbearing women in Scotland: prevalence, deprivation, and diagnosis

2004 • 65 citations

Prevalence of hepatitis C in prisons: WASH-C surveillance linked to self-reported risk behaviours

1999 • 64 citations

Comparing the public health burden of chronic hepatitis C and HIV infection in France

2003 • 59 citations

HCV prevalence in pregnant women in the UK

2000 • 58 citations

Hepatitis C virus among high and low risk pregnant women in Dundee: unlinked anonymous testing

2001 • 57 citations

A study of hepatitis C prevalence in healthcare workers in the West of Scotland

2001 • 57 citations

Seroprevalence and risk factors for hepatitis C virus antibody in pregnant women.

1992 • 54 citations

Modelling the spread of hepatitis C virus infection among injecting drug users in Glasgow: Implications for prevention

2006 • 50 citations

Simulation of hepatitis C based on a mandatory reporting system

2002 • 47 citations

Prevalence of hepatitis C infection in pregnant women in South Australia

1997 • 45 citations

Prevalence and epidemiological characteristics of hepatitis C in Scottish blood donors

1994 • 40 citations

Association between chronic hepatitis C infection and hepatocellular carcinoma in a Scottish population.

1997 • 39 citations

Prevalence of hepatitis C among injectors in Scotland 1989–2000: declining trends among young injectors halt in the late 1990s

2002 • 37 citations

Hepatitis C virus infection in renal dialysis patients in Glasgow

1994 • 36 citations

Risk of hepatitis C virus transmission from patients to surgeons: model based on an unlinked anonymous study of hepatitis C virus prevalence in hospital patients in Glasgow

2003 • 35 citations

Prevalence of hepatitis C antibodies among healthcare workers of two teaching hospitals. Who is at risk?

1997 • 33 citations

Epidemiologic predictors of hepatitis C virus infection in pregnant women

1995 • 31 citations

Antenatal hepatitis C virus screening and management of infected women and their children: policies in Europe

1999 • 28 citations

Establishment of a database of diagnosed HCV-infected persons in Scotland.

2003 • 27 citations

Prevalence of hepatitis B and C viruses and human immunodeficiency virus infections in women of reproductive age

1992 • 25 citations

Detection of hepatitis C virus antibodies and specific hepatitis C virus ribonucleic acid sequences in cord bloods from a heterogeneous prenatal population

1995 • 24 citations

Hepatitis virus infection and liver disease in injecting drug users who died suddenly.

1996 • 22 citations

Projecting severe sequelae of injection-related hepatitis C virus epidemic in the UK - Part 1

2001 • 18 citations

High risk injecting behaviour among injectors from Glasgow: cross sectional community wide surveys 1990-1999

2001 • 14 citations

The feasibility and acceptability of collecting oral fluid from healthy children for anti-HCV testing

2004 • 14 citations

Natural history of hepatitis C infection: a concise review.

2001 • 13 citations

An outbreak of acute hepatitis B infection among injecting drug users in Inverclyde, Scotland.

2001 • 12 citations

Hepatitis C virus among genitourinary clinic attenders in Scotland: unlinked anonymous testing

2001 • 11 citations

Pilot study to estimate survivors to 1995 of 1983–1984 prevalent hepatitis C infections in lothian patients who tested positive or negative for hepatitis B surface antigen in 1983–1984

1998 • 10 citations

Audit of bloodborne virus infections in injecting drug users in general practice.

2000 • 8 citations

Haemophilia, Blood Products and HIV Infection

1987 • 7 citations

Hepatitis C infection among dental personnel in the West of Scotland, UK

2003 • 4 citations