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Infection with Hepatitis C Virus among HIV-Infected Pregnant Women in Thailand
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Jan 27 2009
Source: Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol. 2008; 2008.
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Alternative Title:Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol
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Description:The purpose of this study was to describe the epidemiology of coinfection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) and HIV among a cohort of pregnant Thai women.|Samples from 1771 pregnant women enrolled in three vertical transmission of HIV studies in Bangkok, Thailand, were tested for HCV.|Among HIV-infected pregnant women, HCV seroprevelance was 3.8% and the active HCV infection rate was 3.0%. Among HIV-uninfected pregnant women, 0.3% were HCV-infected. Intravenous drug use by the woman was the factor most strongly associated with HCV seropositivity. Among 48 infants tested for HCV who were born to HIV/HCV coinfected women, two infants were HCV infected for an HCV transmission rate of 4.2% (95% 0.51-14.25%).|HCV seroprevalence and perinatal transmission rates were low among this Thai cohort of HIV-infected pregnant women.
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