TY - GEN AU - Monsalve-Castillo, Francisca AU - Chacín-Bonilla, Leonor AU - Atencio, Ricardo J AU - Porto Espinoza, Leticia AU - Costa-León, Luciana AU - Echevarria, Jose Manuel PY - 2007 DO - 10.1590/s0074-02762007000100018 SN - 0074-0276 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/12895 AB - Previous studies have not found hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in Amerindians from Western Venezuela. A survey of 254 Bari and Yukpa natives aged 10-60 years (mean +/- SD age = 35 +/- 5.4 years) from four communities, two Bari and two Yukpa, in... LA - eng PB - Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) KW - hepatitis C virus KW - prevalence KW - Amerindians KW - Venezuela KW - Indians, South American KW - Adolescent KW - Adult KW - Child KW - Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay KW - Female KW - Hepacivirus KW - Hepatitis C KW - Hepatitis C Antibodies KW - Humans KW - Male KW - Middle Aged KW - Polymerase Chain Reaction KW - Prevalence KW - RNA, Viral KW - Venezuela TI - Low prevalence of hepatitis C virus infection in Amerindians from Western Venezuela. TY - research article ER -