Commercial tattooing as a potentially important source of hepatitis C infection. Clinical epidemiology of 626 consecutive patients unaware of their hepatitis C serologic status.

作者: ROBERT W. HALEY , R. PAUL FISCHER

DOI: 10.1097/00005792-200103000-00006

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摘要: IntroductionHepatitis C virus (HCV), first identified in 1989 (34), is the most common chronic viral infection United States population, affecting at least 1.8%, or 3.9 million, Americans, and placing them increasing risk of hepatic cirrhosis carcinoma coming decades (9,33). This ex

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