Global epidemiology of hepatitis C virus infection

CW Shepard, L Finelli, MJ Alter - The Lancet infectious diseases, 2005 - thelancet.com
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major cause of liver disease worldwide and a potential cause of
substantial morbidity and mortality in the future. The complexity and uncertainty related to …

Epidemiology of primary liver cancer

FX Bosch, J Ribes, J Borràs - Seminars in liver disease, 1999 - thieme-connect.com
Liver cancer (LC) ranks fifth in frequency in the world with an estimated number of 437,000
new cases in 1990. In developing countries, incidence rates are two-to three-fold higher …

Clinical progression, survival, and immune recovery during antiretroviral therapy in patients with HIV-1 and hepatitis C virus coinfection: the Swiss HIV Cohort Study

G Greub, B Ledergerber, M Battegay, P Grob, L Perrin… - The Lancet, 2000 - thelancet.com
Summary Background Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is highly prevalent among HIV-1-
infected individuals, but its contribution to the morbidity and mortality of coinfected patients …

Influence of hepatitis C virus infection on HIV-1 disease progression and response to highly active antiretroviral therapy

JK Rockstroh, A Mocroft, V Soriano… - The Journal of …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Objective To assess hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody prevalence in the EuroSIDA cohort,
along with survival, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–1 disease progression, virologic …

HIV and co‐infections

CC Chang, M Crane, JL Zhou, M Mina… - Immunological …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Despite significant reductions in morbidity and mortality secondary to availability of effective
combination anti‐retroviral therapy (cART), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection …

Hepatitis C and progression of HIV disease

MS Sulkowski, RD Moore, SH Mehta, RE Chaisson… - Jama, 2002 - jamanetwork.com
ContextConflicting reports exist regarding the effect of hepatitis C virus (HCV) on the
progression of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease. ObjectiveTo assess the effect …

Hepatitis C in the HIV-infected person

MS Sulkowski, DL Thomas - Annals of internal medicine, 2003 - acpjournals.org
Because of shared routes of transmission, hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is common in
HIV-infected persons, who have been experiencing increasing HCV-related morbidity and …

Contribution of immune activation to the pathogenesis and transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection

SD Lawn, ST Butera, TM Folks - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2001 - Am Soc Microbiol
The life cycle of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) is intricately related to the
activation state of the host cells supporting viral replication. Although cellular activation is …

The influence of human immunodeficiency virus coinfection on chronic hepatitis C in injection drug users: a long-term retrospective cohort study

V Di Martino, P Rufat, N Boyer, P Renard, S Matheron… - Hepatology, 2001 - Elsevier
In this study we analyzed the influence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection on
the course of chronic hepatitis C through multivariate analysis including age, alcohol …

Hepatitis C virus infection as an opportunistic disease in persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus

MS Sulkowski, EE Mast, LB Seeff… - Clinical infectious …, 2000 - academic.oup.com
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an RNA virus of the Flaviviridae family and is a major cause of
chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. Owing to shared routes of …