Hepatitis C virus: Epidemiology and transmission

The Risk of Transfusion-Transmitted Viral Infections

1996 • 1,893 citations

Interrelationship of blood transfusion, non-A, non-B hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma: Analysis by detection of antibody to hepatitis C virus

1990 • 1,236 citations

The Declining Risk of Post-Transfusion Hepatitis C Virus Infection

1992 • 727 citations

Epidemiology of Hepatitis C in the West

1995 • 506 citations

Mother-to-infant transmission of hepatitis C virus

1995 • 467 citations

Hepatitis C Infection in Patients with Primary Hypogammaglobulinemia after Treatment with Contaminated Immune Globulin

1994 • 380 citations

The progression of HCV‐associated liver disease in a cohort of haemophilic patients

1994 • 282 citations

Volunteer Blood Donors with Antibody to Hepatitis C Virus: Clinical, Biochemical, Virologic, and Histologic Features

1995 • 264 citations

Prevalence of Hepatitis C Virus RNA in Organ Donors Positive for Hepatitis C Antibody and in the Recipients of Their Organs

1992 • 260 citations

Effect of Human Immunodeficiency Virus on Hepatitis C Virus Infection among Injecting Drug Users

1996 • 237 citations

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

1995 • 201 citations

Absence of infection in breast-fed infants born to hepatitis C virus-infected mothers

1995 • 194 citations

Increased serum hepatitis C virus RNA levels among alcoholic patients with chronic hepatitis C

1994 • 186 citations

Perinatal transmission and manifestation of hepatitis C virus infection in a high risk population

1995 • 173 citations

High Prevalence of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) RNA in Dialysis Patients: Failure of Commercially Available Antibody Tests to Identify a Significant Number of Patients with HCV Infection

1993 • 170 citations

A longitudinal study on the incidence and transmission patterns of HIV, HBV and HCV infection among drug users in Amsterdam

1993 • 164 citations

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

1994 • 159 citations

Coinfection of Hepatitis C Virus with Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Progression to AIDS

1995 • 159 citations

Failure to detect hepatitis C virus genome in human secretions with the polymerase chain reaction

1991 • 159 citations

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

1995 • 158 citations

Sexual transmission of hepatitis C virus: cohort study (1981-9) among European homosexual men.

1990 • 150 citations

Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Patients Infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus

1993 • 148 citations

A unique, predominant hepatitis C virus variant found in an infant born to a mother with multiple variants

1993 • 145 citations

Molecular epidemiology of an outbreak of infection with hepatitis C virus in recipients of anti-D immunoglobulin

1995 • 142 citations

Absence of hepatitis C viral RNA from saliva and semen of patients with chronic hepatitis C

1992 • 140 citations

A multicenter study of viral hepatitis in a United States hemophilic population

1993 • 139 citations

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

1995 • 127 citations

Lack of mother-to-infant transmission of hepatitis C virus in human immunodeficiency virus–seronegative women: A prospective study with hepatitis C virus RNA testing

1993 • 125 citations

Demographic Determinants of Hepatitis C Virus Seroprevalence Among Blood Donors

1996 • 113 citations

Lack of evidence for the heterosexual transmission of hepatitis C.

1992 • 105 citations

Transmission of hepatitis C virus from mothers to infants: its frequency and risk factors revisited

1995 • 96 citations

Molecular analysis of intraspousal transmission of hepatitis C virus

1995 • 91 citations

Mode of hepatitis C infection not associated with blood transfusion among chronic hemodialysis patients

1995 • 90 citations

Chronic Hepatitis C in Alcoholic Patients: Prevalence, Genotypes, and Correlation to Liver Disease

1995 • 90 citations

Clinical significance of concomitant hepatitis C infection in patients with alcoholic liver disease

1994 • 89 citations

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

1995 • 87 citations

High prevalence of hepatitis C virus among urban and rural population groups in Egypt

1995 • 85 citations

Hepatitis C Virus in Alcoholic Patients with and without Clinically Apparent Liver Disease

1995 • 84 citations

Intrafamilial Transmission of Hepatitis C Virus Among the Population of an Endemic Area of Japan

1995 • 82 citations

Epidemiology of hepatitis C among veterans with alcoholic liver disease. The VA Cooperative Study Group 275.

1993 • 81 citations

Outbreak of acute hepatitis C following the use of anti-hepatitis C virus--screened intravenous immunoglobulin therapy

1996 • 79 citations

Hepatitis C virus RNA in saliva of patients with posttransfusion hepatitis and low efficiency of transmission among spouses

1992 • 77 citations

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

1994 • 75 citations

Hepatitis C infection and viremia in Dutch Hemophilia patients

1995 • 73 citations

Prevalence of antibody to hepatitis C virus (HCV) in HIV‐1‐infected patients (nice seroco cohort)

1994 • 68 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

Prevalence of Hepatitis C in a Chemically Dependent Population

1993 • 63 citations

A Survey of Antibodies to Hepatitis C Virus in Ethiopia

1993 • 62 citations

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

1993 • 61 citations

Intravenous Drug Abuse–the Major Route of Hepatitis C Virus Transmission among Alcohol-Dependent Individuals?

1993 • 56 citations

Prevalence, infectivity, and risk factor analysis of hepatitis C virus infection in prostitutes

1993 • 55 citations

Prevalence of hepatitis C virus and other blood-borne viruses in Pygmies and neighbouring Bantus in southern Cameroon

1995 • 52 citations

Hepatitis C virus infection in the asymptomatic British blood donor

1995 • 51 citations

High level of hepatitis C endemicity in Gabon, equatorial Africa

1993 • 50 citations

Prevalence of hepatitis B, C, and D virus markers in yemeni patients with chronic liver disease

1993 • 50 citations

Profile of hepatitis C virus and the possible modes of transmission of the virus in the Gizan area of Saudi Arabia: a community-based study

1995 • 45 citations

Prevalence of hepatitis C viral infection in a community in Taiwan

1993 • 44 citations

“Inapparent” hepatitis B virus infection and hepatitis C virus replication in alcoholic subjects with and without liver disease

1994 • 44 citations

High Incidence of Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Hemodialysis Patients in Taiwan

1993 • 42 citations

Comparison of seroepidemiology of hepatitis C in blood donors between Bangladesh and Japan

1993 • 40 citations

Prevalence of hepatitis C virus antibodies in the general population & in selected groups of patients in Delhi.

1995 • 39 citations

Detection of Hepatitis C Infection by Polymerase Chain Reaction Among Hemodialysis Patients

1993 • 37 citations

Ethnic differences in the prevalence of anti‐hepatitis C antibodies and hepatitis B surface antigen in Israeli blood donors by age, sex, country of birth and origin

1995 • 34 citations

Studies on transmission of hepatitis C virus from mother-to-child in the perinatal period

1993 • 34 citations

Prevalence and Clinical Course of Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C Liver Disease in Ciclosporin-Treated Renal Allograft Recipients

1995 • 34 citations

Hepatitis C virus infection in renal transplant recipients: epidemiology, clinical impact, serological confirmation and viral replication

1995 • 33 citations

Prevalence of Infection with the Hepatitis C Virus among Italian Hemophiliacs before and after the Introduction of Virally Inactivated Clotting Factor Concentrates: A Retrospective Evaluation

1994 • 31 citations

Prevalence of hepatitis C virus antibodies in blood donors in Malaysia.

1993 • 31 citations

Markers of hepatitis C and B virus infections among blood donors in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, Vietnam

1994 • 31 citations

The epidemiology of hepatitis C in turkey

1994 • 30 citations

Co-infection by hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus in renal transplantation: morbidity and mortality in 1098 patients

1995 • 27 citations

High prevalence of hepatitis C virus in the normal Libyan population

1994 • 26 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 C virus infections in oral and injectable drug users.

1993 • 22 citations

HCV RNA is present in the menstrual blood of women with chronic hepatitis C infection.

1994 • 22 citations

The prevalence of antibodies to hepatitis C virus at two haemodialysis units in South Africa.

1995 • 21 citations

Hepatitis B and C prevalences among blood donors in the south region of Brazil

1994 • 21 citations

Prevalence of antibodies to hepatitis C virus in patients on peritoneal dialysis--a multicenter study.

1993 • 20 citations

Exposure to hepatitis B and C and to HTLV‐1 and 2 among Israeli drug abusers in Jerusalem

1994 • 20 citations

Prevalence of antibodies to hepatitis C virus in relation to surrogate markers in a blood donor population of Singapore.

1993 • 19 citations

The prevalence of hepatitis C virus antibodies in renal patients, blood donors and patients with chronic liver disease in Kenya.

1995 • 18 citations

Three-year incidence study of retroviral and viral hepatitis transmission in a Peruvian prostitute population.

1993 • 17 citations

[Seroprevalence of hepatitis C antibodies among blood donors. Study of second generation ELISA and RIBA tests and surrogate markers].

1993 • 16 citations

[Hepatitis C virus antibodies in alcoholic patients].

1995 • 16 citations

An Outbreak of Acute Hepatitis C Among Recipients of Intravenous Immunoglobulin

1996 • 14 citations

DETECTION OF HEPATITIS C VIRUS ANTIBODIES AND HEPATITIS C VIRUS RNA IN PATIENTS WITH ALCOHOLIC LIVER DISEASE

1995 • 13 citations

Seroprevalence of anti-HCV among HIV-infected persons and general population.

1995 • 11 citations

Epidemiologie und Klinik der chronischen Virushepatitis

2008 • 8 citations

Hepatitis C contributes to liver disease in children and adolescents with hemophilia

1994 • 8 citations

[The prevalence of anti-hepatitis C antibodies in pregnant women and blood donors in Bénin].

1995 • 8 citations

Demographic Determinants of Hepatitis C Virus Seroprevalence Among Blood Donors

1997 • 7 citations

A unique seroepidemiologic situation for hepatitis B markers in Guadeloupe. Results of a prospective study in blood donors.

1993 • 4 citations

Prävalenz des Hepatitis-C-Virus bei polytransfundierten Patienten mit hämatologischen und onkologischen Erkrankungen

1992 • 2 citations