An epidemic of hepatitis C virus infection while treating endemic infectious diseases in Equatorial Africa more than a half century ago: did it also jump-start the AIDS pandemic?

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G Thomas Strickland. Clin Infect Dis. 2010.

. 2010 Oct 1;51(7):785-7.

doi: 10.1086/656234.

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