Epidemiological and genetic analyses of Hepatitis C virus transmission among young/short- and long-term injecting drug users from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Maria de Lourdes Aguiar
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Outros Autores: Bastos, Francisco Inácio Pinkusfeld Monteiro, Dias, Paulo Roberto Telles Pires, Vilas-Boas Hacker, Mariana de Andrea, Oliveira, Sabrina Alberti Nóbrega de, Miguel, Juliana Custódio, Yoshida, Clara Fumiko Tachibana
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da FIOCRUZ (ARCA)
• Texto Completo: https://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/1261
• topic: Injecting drug use; Substance abuse; Hepatitis C virus; HCV epidemiology; HCV subtypes; Phylogenetic analysis

This paper is based on the data and experience obtained during the WHO Drug Injection Study Phase II—a project, coordinated and sponsored by the World Health Organization and implemented by the WHO Phase II Drug Injection Collaborative Study Group. The authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this paper, which do not necessarily represent those of the other investigators participating in the WHO Drug Injection Study Phase II nor the views or policy of the World Health Organization. We are grateful to the Harm Reduction Program team for the fieldwork with such hard-to-reach and population; to Aline Santos Moreira, from the Genomic Platform-DNA Sequencing (PDTISFiocruz) for DNA sequencing of samples included in this study and to Dr. José Paulo Leite, Dr.Milton Moraes, Mrs. Marcia Paschoal, and Dr. Elisabeth Lampe, for their helpful suggestions.