Low Yield of Hepatitis C Infection in an Outreach Screening Program in Harris County, Texas

Low Yield of Hepatitis C Infection in an Outreach Screening Program in Harris County, Texas

A community outreach hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection screening program provided low yield of detecting HCV-infected patients, linking them to our hepatology clinic for treatment. Our data underscore that most of the yield was related to addiction centers and birth cohort; these groups should be ta...

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Veröffentlicht in:Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2020-07, Vol.7 (7), p.ofaa191-ofaa191
Hauptverfasser: Kim, Hyun-seok, Guerrero, Rosalia, Reader, Shane W, Daheri, Maria, Balakrishnan, Maya, Troisi, Catherine L, El-Serag, Hashem B, Thrift, Aaron P
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Sprache:eng
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Brief Report
Hepatitis C virus
Infection
Virus diseases
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Zusammenfassung:A community outreach hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection screening program provided low yield of detecting HCV-infected patients, linking them to our hepatology clinic for treatment. Our data underscore that most of the yield was related to addiction centers and birth cohort; these groups should be targeted by future interventions.
ISSN:2328-8957
2328-8957
DOI:10.1093/ofid/ofaa191