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Letters |15 January 1995

Transmission of Hepatitis C Virus to Spouses

Yoshihiro Akahane; Fumio Tsuda; Hiroaki Okamoto

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No HCV infection developed in any of seven spouses of patients with chronic hepatitis C during the first 10 years after marriage in our study. This finding is in agreement with the observation of Mauser-Bunschoten and colleagues that persons with hemophilia who were positive for HCV RNA did not transmit HCV to their 50 heterosexual partners within a mean duration of 13 years. The absence of transmission within the first decade of a heterosexual relationship, however, does not guarantee that transmission will not occur in the future. Our principal message is that spouses of patients with chronic hepatitis C are at high risk for HCV infection and that this risk increases with the duration of marriage (calibrated in decades).
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Akahane Y, Tsuda F, Okamoto H. Transmission of Hepatitis C Virus to Spouses. Ann Intern Med. ;122:154–155. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-122-2-199501150-00016

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 1995;122(2):154-155.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-122-2-199501150-00016

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