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Of 30,231 donors tested, 368 (1.2%) were anti-HCV positive. Of these, 254 have been evaluated, with the following results: only 25% have a history of parenteral risk, seroprevalence increases with age and approximately 80% of those that are anti-HCV positive in our population are probably infected with HCV. In addition, an unexpectedly large number of these persons have chronic and/or severe liver disease and will require combined diagnostic approaches for accurate evaluation.
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Esteban, J.I. et al. (1992). Evaluation of anti-HCV positive blood donors identified during routine screening. In: De Bac, C., Taliani, G., Gerlich, W.H. (eds) Chronically Evolving Viral Hepatitis. Archives of Virology, vol 4. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-5633-9_53
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