Chronic hepatitis C infection in a patient with bone marrow hypoplasia
Friday, October 17, 2008 - 09:00
in Health & Medicine
HCV is acquired by intravenous drug abuse, sexually or via blood transfusion (rare nowadays due to the effective screening of blood products before transfusion). HCV is known to cause chronic infection in 80% - 90% of the patients getting infected...
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