Moleculo-epidemiology of C hepatitis virus infection in harlots in Hanoi
- Author:
Tran Thanh Duong
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
C hepatitis, harlots
- MeSH:
Epidemiology, Molecular;
Hepacivirus;
Epidemiology
- From:Journal of Practical Medicine
2004;474(3):17-22
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
The incidence and genotype of endemic C hepatitis in Hanoi female sex workers at the social re-education centre belonging to Hanoi Office of Invalid – Labor – Social, which was determined in a cross-sectional study – had show that: most of female sex workers there acquired almost genotypes of C hepatitis – 1a, 1b, 1ab, 1c, 6, 6a, 9a. The risk of their hepatitis infection was higher in the group of intravenous drug use than in the groups without drug use
