Hepatitis C Virus genotype diversity and distribution among methadone maintenance treatment patients in Jiangsu, China

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the pathogen of Hepatitis C which causes chronic liver disease, cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, and liver-related mortality worldwide. Globally, the prevalence of viraemic HCV was estimated to be 1 –1.1% which meant 71.1–80 million by 2015 (2017b). In mainland China, the anti-HCV prevalence rate was 0.43–1.6% in the general population (Bennett et al., 2015; Cui and Jia, 2013), and the number would be much higher in high-risk groups, such as paid blood donors, patients on hemodialysis and heroin users.

Source: Drug and Alcohol Dependence - November 2, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Jing Lu, Li Zhang, Xiaoqin Xu, Yuanfang Chen, Ying Zhou, Zhi Zhang, Gengfeng Fu, Guohong Chen Tags: Full length article Source Type: research