Publications

hepatitis c infection in louisiana.	estimating a prevalence of 1.8% of hepatitis c in the general population, there are in louisiana about 81,000 individuals who have been infected with the hepatitis c virus. in 2002, the incidence of reported cases of acute hepatitis c was 2.2/100,000 versus 0.64 in the usa. the case register maintained by the louisiana office of public health has 22,000 cases. building up a register of hepatitis c past or present infections is an important tool that may be used to resolve some important question ...	2005	16022276
prevalence of active hepatitis c virus infection in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.	hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection is associated with various autoimmune disorders and can mimic systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) clinically and serologically. there are few reports of prevalence of hcv infection in patients with sle. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of hcv viremia by polymerase chain reaction (pcr) in patients with sle.	2006	16702794