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Absence of Active Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Clinics in Zambia and Mozambique

2016; Oxford University Press; Volume: 3; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/ofid/ofw049

2328-8957

Gilles Wandeler, Lloyd Mulenga, Michael Hobbins, Candido Joao, Edford Sinkala, Jonas Hector, Musa Aly, H. Benjamin, Matthias Egger, Michael J. Vinikoor,

Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment

Abstract Few studies have evaluated the prevalence of replicating hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in sub-Saharan Africa. Among 1812 individuals infected with human immunodeficiency virus, no patient in rural Mozambique and 4 patients in urban Zambia were positive for anti-HCV antibodies. Of these, none had confirmed HCV replication.