Seroprevalence of hepatitis C virus infection in children: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Muhammad Abd El-Gawad ShawkySherief Abd-ElsalamIbrahim Abdel-GawadMohammed Tag-AdeenMarwa El-SayedDalia Abdel-Malek

Published in: Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver (2022)

Few studies were conducted to assess the seroprevalence of HCV in children worldwide. However, the worldwide pooled seroprevalence of HCV in children in these studies is low (less than 1%).

Keyphrases

young adults
hepatitis c virus
hepatitis c virus infection
randomized controlled trial
case control
double blind
placebo controlled