LUNGARO P

Aim. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is common in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected individuals in the United States and in Western Europe. The aim of this study is to describe our experience in the management of HIV-HCV co-infected women during pregnancy and to report the rates of HIV and HCV vertical transmission in this...

This prospective study, designed to demonstrate the rate of vertical transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV), enrolled 170 consecutive anti-HCV antibody-positive women and their 188 infants over a 12-month period. HCV screening used second- and third-generation enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays. HCV-RNA was quantified in the women using the...