Transmission (Hepatitis)
"Prospective Study of Hepatitis C Virus from Mothers HCV Positive/HIV Negative, to Infant, Frequency and Risk Factors."
Published in Hepatitis Weekly, October 7th, 1996
According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 36th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, held September 15-18, 1996, in New Orleans, Louisiana, "Objective: We conducted a prospective study to discover the rate of HCV infection in babies born to mothers who were anti-HCV positive. None of them had evidence for hepatitis. Material and Methods: Since Nov. 1991 to Sept. 1995 a total of 7743 pregnant women were tested for antibodies against HCV, and 159 were positive (2.05%); 64 gave their informed consent to include their babies in this study. Serum was obtained the mothers at the time of delivery and from the babies in the firsts...
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