Hepatitis C Seroprevalence among Prison Inmates since 2001: Still High but Declining
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Hepatitis C seroprevalence among prison inmates since 2001: still high but declining.
OBJECTIVES Although the hepatitis C epidemic in the United States disproportionately affects correctional populations, the last national estimates of seroprevalence and disease burden among these populations are more than a decade old. We investigated routine hepatitis C surveillance conducted in state prison systems and updated previous estimates. METHODS We surveyed all U.S. state correctio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Public Health Reports
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0033-3549,1468-2877
DOI: 10.1177/003335491412900213