One group of 153 people had the hepatitis C virus only.

General knowledge about hepatitis C virus among the public is slight.

Low levels of the hepatitis C virus in your blood when you start treatment.

Not everyone infected with the hepatitis C virus knows it.

Begin here with the basic facts on hepatitis C virus.

When does mother to child transmission of hepatitis C virus occur?

Most people have no symptoms when they are first infected with the hepatitis C virus.

This work eventually led to the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.

This is a blood test that looks for antibodies against the hepatitis C virus.

The trial in hepatitis C virus patients did show liver protection.

There are several types of the hepatitis C virus that cause infection.

These potential new treatments have come about due to a better understanding of the hepatitis C virus.

Certain factors may increase your risk of becoming infected with the hepatitis C virus.

The way in which hepatitis C virus causes liver cancer is not well understood.

Also, many people with the hepatitis C virus never get sick or do so only 10 or 20 years later.

Perhaps its biggest claim to fame is the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.

Prior to that year, donated blood was not screened for the hepatitis C virus.

The entire genome of the hepatitis C virus is owned by a biotech company.

A prospective study on mother-to-infant transmission of hepatitis C virus.

Hepatitis C virus infection in the mothers and infants cohort study.

Chiron developed the test for the hepatitis C virus.

Prevalence of hepatitis C virus infection in urban children.

Natural history of hepatitis C virus among apparently normal schoolchildren: follow-up after 7 years.

This brief overview tells you what happens when hepatitis C virus enters your body.

Similarly, it took several years to show that the hepatitis C virus was a common cause of chronic illness.

Data are limited on survival of HCV in the environment.

HCV has 6 genotypes, and some are easier to treat than others.

HCV is not transmitted efficiently through occupational exposures to blood.

Children born to HCV positive mothers (after 18 months of age).

So this now is rarely a source of HCV infection.

I could go to a funeral of an HCV patient every week."

Sharing such items can potentially lead to exposure to HCV.

You have a known exposure to HCV (such as health care workers getting stuck by a needle).

What determines the outcome of HCV infection is not clear."

Some regions of the HCV genome share only 50 percent identity across strains.

What can I do to prevent others from becoming infected with my HCV?

Figure 1shows a plot of conservation score using a 10-bp window for the whole HCV genome.

A total of 321 (40%) subjects were sero-reactive to HCV.

Both vaccine candidates have the potential to protect humans from a large number of HCV strains.

HCV induces chronic infection in 50-80% of infected persons.

Sustained response is about 40-50% in people with HCV genotype 1 given 48 weeks of treatment.

Limited data suggest that breast-feeding does not transmit HCV.

No action is necessary to prevent HCV infection.

Recent studies have shown that HCV can survive outside the body and still transmit infection for 16 hours, but not longer than four days.

There are seven major types of HCV, called "genotypes".

Both of these proteases are directly involved in HCV genome replication.

HCV has a high rate of replication with approximately one trillion particles produced each day in an infected individual.

No vaccines are available to prevent HCV infection.

Cases of acute HCV infection are increasingly recognized and reported in this patient population (1088).

The approach taken, to break the HCV genome into 10 pieces according to the gene boundaries, proved to be successful.