Authors
Markus Cornberg, Homie A Razavi, Alfredo Alberti, Enos Bernasconi, Maria Buti, Curtis Cooper, Olav Dalgard, John F Dillion, Robert Flisiak, Xavier Forns, Sona Frankova, Adrian Goldis, Ioannis Goulis, Waldemar Halota, Bela Hunyady, Martin Lagging, Angela Largen, Michael Makara, Spilios Manolakopoulos, Patrick Marcellin, Rui T Marinho, Stanislas Pol, Thierry Poynard, Massimo Puoti, Olga Sagalova, Scott Sibbel, Krzysztof Simon, Carolyn Wallace, Kendra Young, Cihan Yurdaydin, Eli Zuckerman, Francesco Negro, Stefan Zeuzem
Publication date
2011/7
Source
Liver International
Volume
31
Pages
30-60
Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Description
Background and Aim: Decisions on public health issues are dependent on reliable epidemiological data. A comprehensive review of the literature was used to gather country‐specific data on risk factors, prevalence, number of diagnosed individuals and genotype distribution of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in selected European countries, Canada and Israel.
Methodology: Data references were identified through indexed journals and non‐indexed sources. In this work, 13 000 articles were reviewed and 860 were selected based on their relevance.
Results: Differences in prevalence were explained by local and regional variances in transmission routes or different public health measures. The lowest HCV prevalence (≤0.5%) estimates were from northern European countries and the highest (≥3%) were from Romania and rural areas in Greece, Italy and Russia. The main risk for HCV transmission in …
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