Mother-to-infant transmission of hepatitis C virus


Table 3: Studies of HCV infection rates in infants of mothers with HIV and HCV coinfection (anti-HCV seropositive)
StudyCountryNo. of infants studiedNo. (and %) with HCV infection
Zanetti et al19Italy228 (36)
Ercilla et al20Spain10519 (18)
Novati et al22Italy 81 (13)
Lam et al23United Kingdom583 (5)
Total193*31 (16)
*Of the infants of the 23 mothers who were HCV RNA (rather than anti-HCV) seropositive and HIV seropositive (23), 9 (39%) had an HCV infection.

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