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Treatment of hepatitis c as prevention: a modeling case study in Vietnam
- Abstract:
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Background: Treatment of hepatitis C (HCV) is very effective, achieving a cure in 50–90% of patients. Besides its own good for individuals, this most likely translates in reduced transmission, but this phenomenon has yet to be fully explored.
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Methods and Findings: In this mathematical modeling study done in the context of Vietnam, we estimated the public health benefit that HCV therapy for injecting drug users (IDUs) may achieve. Treatm...
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS ONE Journal website
- Volume:
- 7
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- e34548
- Publication date:
- 2012-04-12
- Acceptance date:
- 2012-03-06
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1932-6203
- Pmid:
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22511949
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:342720
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uuid:c66c1bdf-d87c-41ee-93f7-e99422922716
- Local pid:
- pubs:342720
- Source identifiers:
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342720
- Deposit date:
- 2019-02-05
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- Copyright holder:
- Durier et al
- Copyright date:
- 2012
- Notes:
- © 2012 Durier et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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