Risk factors for hepatitis C: past, present and future.
Patients at risk for hepatitis C (HCV) are those exposed to a major risk factor (i.e. blood transfusion prior 1990, and intravenous drug abuse), and those exposed to a minor risk factor (sexual, mother-to-infant transmission, household contact, nosocomial contamination). The present paper aims to review the current and past modes of transmission of the virus C.
Delwaide
J
J
Dept. Gastroenterology, CHU Sart Tilman, B-4000 Liège. gastroentero@ulg.ac.be
Bourgeois
N
N
Colle
I
I
Robaeys
G
G
D000328:Adult; D001530:Belgium / Q000453:epidemiology; D018562:Disease Transmission, Infectious; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006266:Health Education; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D017758:Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional; D018445:Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011322:Primary Prevention; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D012747:Sexual Partners; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous