Publications
| infection disclosure in the injecting dyads of hungarian and lithuanian injecting drug users who self-reported being infected with hepatitis c virus or human immunodeficiency virus. | the aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and correlates of disclosure to network members of being hepatitis c virus (hcv)- or human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)-infected among injecting dyads of infected injection drug users (idus) in budapest, hungary and vilnius, lithuania,. multivariate generalized estimating equations (gee) were used to assess associations. very strong infection disclosure norms exist in hungary, and hcv disclosure was associated with using drugs and having sex wit ... | 2011 | 20840002 |
| characterization of hcv strains in an oncohematological pediatric department reveals little horizontal transmission but multiple introductions by un-screened blood products in the past. | because several children were found infected with hepatitis c virus (hcv) at a pediatric oncohematological department in vilnius, 474 children were tested for anti-hcv. fifty-eight percent of 96 children treated with blood and plasma products manufactured before the introduction of anti-hcv screening of blood in lithuania in 1994 were positive for anti-hcv versus 3.4% of those treated after 1994. the possible route of transmission for 45 of these was investigated by phylogenetic analyses within ... | 2006 | 16998896 |