Prevalence of hepatitis C among pregnant women attending an inner London obstetric department: uptake and acceptability of named antenatal testing.

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Published in Gut on August 01, 2000

Authors

C Ward1, G Tudor-Williams, T Cotzias, S Hargreaves, L Regan, G R Foster

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Imperial College School of Medicine at St Mary's Hospital, London, UK.

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