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Comment
. 2022 Feb;76(2):470-472.
doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2021.08.005. Epub 2021 Aug 24.

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hepatitis C diagnosis in Brazil: Is the global hepatitis C elimination strategy at risk?

Rodrigo Feliciano do Carmo  1 , Carlos Dornels Freire de Souza  2
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Comment

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hepatitis C diagnosis in Brazil: Is the global hepatitis C elimination strategy at risk?

Rodrigo Feliciano do Carmo et al. J Hepatol. 2022 Feb.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; HCV; coronavirus; elimination; viral hepatitis.

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Fig. 1
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on diagnosis of hepatitis C in Brazil. (A) Hepatitis C incidence rate; (B) P-score for number of cases and incidence rate of HCV in the Brazilian population; (C) P-score for number of cases and incidence rate of HCV by region; (D) P-score for number of cases and incidence rate of HCV by Brazilian municipality. (This figure appears in color on the web.)
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