The Effective Management of Hepatitis C InfectionMaggie Bassendine, Graham R. Foster, Andrew Miles |
Contents
Epidemiology and health burden of hepatitis C in the UK | 15 |
Achieving accuracy in the diagnosis of disease Defining the utility of biopsy | 31 |
Current clinical practice guidelines on the management of HCV | 55 |
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