Sexual transmission of hepatitis C virus: cohort study (1981-9) among European homosexual men.

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Published in BMJ on July 28, 1990

Authors

M Melbye1, R J Biggar, P Wantzin, K Krogsgaard, P Ebbesen, N G Becker

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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