Artigo Revisado por pares

Mother-to-infant transmission of hepatitis C virus

1992; Elsevier BV; Volume: 120; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0022-3476(05)80914-x

ISSN

1097-6833

Autores

Ikuo Nagata, Kazuo Shiraki, K Tanimoto, Yuichiro Harada, Yuji Tanaka, Takayoshi Okada,

Tópico(s)

Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment

Resumo

Prospective studies of an infant of a mother infected with hepatitis C virus indicated that an HCV infection developed in the infant in early life. Perinatal transmission appeared to be the most likely explanation.

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