 Hepatitis C
"Hepatitis C" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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INFLAMMATION of the LIVER in humans caused by HEPATITIS C VIRUS, a single-stranded RNA virus. Its incubation period is 30-90 days. Hepatitis C is transmitted primarily by contaminated blood parenterally, and is often associated with transfusion and intravenous drug abuse. However, in a significant number of cases, the source of hepatitis C infection is unknown.
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D006526
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C02.440.440 C02.782.350.350 C06.552.380.705.440
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| Concept/Terms |
Hepatitis C- Hepatitis C
- Parenterally-Transmitted Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis
- Parenterally Transmitted Non A, Non B Hepatitis
- PT-NANBH
- Hepatitis, Viral, Non-A, Non-B, Parenterally-Transmitted
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Hepatitis C" by people in this website by year, and whether "Hepatitis C" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2017 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Hepatitis C" by people in Profiles.
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Gentile C, Van Deerlin VM, Goldberg DS, Reese PP, Hasz RD, Abt P, Blumberg E, Farooqi MS. Hepatitis C virus genotyping of organ donor samples to aid in transplantation of HCV-positive organs. Clin Transplant. 2018 02; 32(2).
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Barritt AS, Lee B, Runge T, Schmidt M, Jhaveri R. Increasing Prevalence of Hepatitis C among Hospitalized Children Is Associated with an Increase in Substance Abuse. J Pediatr. 2018 01; 192:159-164.
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Goldberg DS, Abt PL, Blumberg EA, Van Deerlin VM, Levine M, Reddy KR, Bloom RD, Nazarian SM, Sawinski D, Porrett P, Naji A, Hasz R, Suplee L, Trofe-Clark J, Sicilia A, McCauley M, Farooqi M, Gentile C, Smith J, Reese PP. Trial of Transplantation of HCV-Infected Kidneys into Uninfected Recipients. N Engl J Med. 2017 06 15; 376(24):2394-2395.
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Bryan CF, Tegtmeier GE, Polito A, Bayer W, Pierce GE, Shield CF, Warady BA, Aeder MI, Borkon AM, Estep TH, Forster J, Landreneau MD, Luger AM, Nelson PW, Ross G. Evaluation of the 3.0 Ortho EIA assay in 385 consecutive cadaveric organ donors. Transplant Proc. 1996 Feb; 28(1):155-6.
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