Prevalence and incidence of hepatitis C in injecting drug users attending genitourinary medicine clinics

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1996 • 2,061 citations

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1998 • 1,246 citations

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2005 • 847 citations

New Testing Strategy to Detect Early HIV-1 Infection for Use in Incidence Estimates and for Clinical and Prevention Purposes

1998 • 698 citations

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1998 • 354 citations

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1997 • 228 citations

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2000 • 227 citations

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2006 • 220 citations

Hepatitis C virus infection and needle exchange use among young injection drug users in San Francisco

2001 • 211 citations

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2001 • 206 citations

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2004 • 170 citations

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1995 • 126 citations

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2007 • 120 citations

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1998 • 111 citations

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2007 • 101 citations

Insights into the epidemiology, natural history and pathogenesis of hepatitis C virus infection from studies of infected donors and blood product recipients

2001 • 94 citations

High hepatitis C virus prevalence and incidence among Canadian intravenous drug users

2007 • 90 citations

Modelling the force of infection for hepatitis B and hepatitis C in injecting drug users in England and Wales

2006 • 88 citations

Continued Transmission of Hepatitis B and C Viruses, But No Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Among Intravenous Drug Users Participating in a Syringe/Needle Exchange Program

2000 • 86 citations

Low Levels of Hepatitis C Virus RNA in Serum, Plasma, and Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells of Injecting Drug Users During Long Antibody-Undetectable Periods Before Seroconversion

1999 • 80 citations

Prevalence of hepatitis C among injection drug users in England and Wales: is harm reduction working?

2001 • 80 citations

Incidence and risk factors of HCV and HIV infections in a cohort of intravenous drug users in the North and East of France

2004 • 78 citations

The most prevalent hepatitis C virus genotypes in England and Wales are 3a and 1a

1999 • 72 citations

Hepatitis B and hepatitis C virus infections: risk factors among drug users in Northwest England

1998 • 70 citations

Hepatitis C genotypes in Finland determined by RFLP

1996 • 69 citations

Polymerase chain reaction assay for hepatitis C virus RNA using a single tube for reverse transcription and serial rounds of amplification with nested primer pairs

1992 • 51 citations

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1998 • 49 citations

Hepatitis C virus infection among injecting drug users in Scotland: a review of prevalence and incidence data and the methods used to generate them

2006 • 46 citations

The public health applications of unlinked anonymous seroprevalence monitoring for HIV in the United Kingdom

2000 • 41 citations

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1992 • 36 citations

A national survey of genitourinary medicine clinic attenders provides little evidence of sexual transmission of hepatitis C virus infection

2003 • 34 citations

Failure to diagnose recent hepatitis C virus infections in London injecting drug users

2004 • 19 citations

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2006 • 19 citations

A Method to Detect the Incidence of Hepatitis C Infection Among Injecting Drug Users in Glasgow 1993–98

2001 • 15 citations

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1999 • 14 citations

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1999 • 13 citations

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2004 • 10 citations