PREVALENCE OF HEPATITIS C VIRUS ANTIBODY IN NEWBORN INFANTS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IN 2003

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Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2011 Mar 9. [Epub ahead of print]

PREVALENCE OF HEPATITIS C VIRUS ANTIBODY IN NEWBORN INFANTS IN SOUTHERN

CALIFORNIA IN 2003.

Bradley JS, Graham S, Picchio GR, Vugia DJ, Kharrazi M.

From the *Division of Infectious Diseases, Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego,

University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA; †Sequoia Foundation, La

Jolla, CA; ‡Tibotec, Inc., Yardley, PA; §Infectious Diseases Branch, California

Department of Public Health, Richmond, CA; and ¶Genetic Disease Screening

Program, California Department of Public Health, Richmond, CA.

Abstract

The prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody in newborn infants in 3

counties in southern California in 2003 was found to be 2.5 per 1000 live births

using dried blood spot testing. With advances in HCV antiviral therapy providing

decreasing morbidity from chronic HCV infection, prenatal HCV screening to

identify both mothers and at-risk infants should be reconsidered.

PMID: 21394051 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2011 Mar 9. [Epub ahead of print]

PREVALENCE OF HEPATITIS C VIRUS ANTIBODY IN NEWBORN INFANTS IN SOUTHERN

CALIFORNIA IN 2003.

Bradley JS, Graham S, Picchio GR, Vugia DJ, Kharrazi M.

From the *Division of Infectious Diseases, Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego,

University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA; †Sequoia Foundation, La

Jolla, CA; ‡Tibotec, Inc., Yardley, PA; §Infectious Diseases Branch, California

Department of Public Health, Richmond, CA; and ¶Genetic Disease Screening

Program, California Department of Public Health, Richmond, CA.

Abstract

The prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody in newborn infants in 3

counties in southern California in 2003 was found to be 2.5 per 1000 live births

using dried blood spot testing. With advances in HCV antiviral therapy providing

decreasing morbidity from chronic HCV infection, prenatal HCV screening to

identify both mothers and at-risk infants should be reconsidered.

PMID: 21394051 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]