Factors associated with hepatitis C virus RNA levels in early chronic infection: the InC3 study.

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Published in J Viral Hepat on January 08, 2015

Authors

B Hajarizadeh1, B Grady2, K Page3, A Y Kim4, B H McGovern5,6, A L Cox7, T M Rice3, R Sacks-Davis8,9, J Bruneau10, M Morris3, J Amin1, J Schinkel11, T Applegate1, L Maher1, M Hellard8,9, A R Lloyd12, M Prins2,11, R B Geskus2,11, G J Dore1, J Grebely1, InC3 Study Group

Author Affiliations

1: The Kirby Institute, UNSW Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
2: Cluster Infectious Diseases, GGD Public Health Service of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
3: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
4: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
5: Tufts Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
6: Abbvie, Chicago, IL, USA.
7: Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA.
8: Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Vic., Australia.
9: Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Vic., Australia.
10: CRCHUM, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
11: Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
12: Inflammation and Infection Research Centre, School of Medical Sciences, UNSW Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

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