One hundred and eighty-five household relatives of 77 patients with chronic hepatitis C and persistent viral replication (54 males and 23 females) were studied for HCV markers and possible risk factors of HCV transmission during a period of 3 years of follow-up. Overall household HCV circulation was low (3.24%). The genotype analysis in 6 HCV RNA positive couples showed the same viral subtype in four of them (type 2 in three and type 1b in one); the genotype was different in the other two couples, whose members had different epidemiologic risk factors.
HCV genotyping may be useful to determine the real diffusion of HCV from HCV chronic patients to their household relatives / C. Casarin, G. Diodati, P. Bonetti, A. Tagger, M.L. Ribero, F. Tremolada. ((Intervento presentato al 3. convegno International Meeting on Hepatitis C Virus and Related Viruses tenutosi a Brisbane, Australia nel 1995, 28 Aug-3 Sep.
HCV genotyping may be useful to determine the real diffusion of HCV from HCV chronic patients to their household relatives
A. Tagger;M.L. Ribero;
1995
Abstract
One hundred and eighty-five household relatives of 77 patients with chronic hepatitis C and persistent viral replication (54 males and 23 females) were studied for HCV markers and possible risk factors of HCV transmission during a period of 3 years of follow-up. Overall household HCV circulation was low (3.24%). The genotype analysis in 6 HCV RNA positive couples showed the same viral subtype in four of them (type 2 in three and type 1b in one); the genotype was different in the other two couples, whose members had different epidemiologic risk factors.
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