Prevalence of hepatitis B and C virus infection among leprosy patients in a leprosy-endemic region of central Brazil José María Hernández Ramos; Ágabo Macêdo Costa e Silva; Regina Maria Bringel Martins; Francisco José Dutra Souto PAGE: 632-634 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000500019

Preliminar evaluation of cytokines in the hepatitis C-schistosomiasis co-infection Clarice NL Morais; Bruno M Carvalho; Wlademir G Melo; Edmundo PA Lopes; Ana Lúcia C Domingues; Norma T Jucá; Wayner Souza; Frederico GC Abath; Silvia ML Montenegro PAGE: 353-354 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762006000900057

A single nucleotide polymorphism, rs129679860, in the IL28B locus is associated with the viral kinetics and a sustained virological response in a chronic, monoinfected hepatitis C virus genotype-1 Brazilian population treated with pegylated inte Juliene Antonio Ramos; Ana Lúcia de Araújo Ramos; Luisa Hoffmann; Renata de Mello Perez; Henrique Sérgio Moraes Coelho; Turán Péter Ürményi; Rosane Silva; Edson Rondinelli; Cristiane Alves Villela-Nogueira PAGE: 888-892 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000700008

Hepatitis C among former athletes: association with the use of injectable stimulants in the past Afonso Dinis Costa Passos; José Fernando de Castro Figueiredo; Ana de Lourdes Candolo Martinelli; Marcia Villanova; Margarida Maria Pásseri do Nascimento; Marie Secaf PAGE: 809-812 | DOI: S0074-02762008000800011

Soluble inflammatory markers as predictors of virological response in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection treated with interferon-? plus ribavirin Alexandre Sampaio Moura; Ricardo Andrade Carmo; Antonio Lucio Teixeira; Mauro Martins Teixeira; Manoel Otávio da Costa Rocha PAGE: 38-43 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000100006

Increased frequency of micronuclei in the lymphocytes of patients chronically infected with hepatitis B or hepatitis C virus Samantha Therezinha Almeida Pereira Leite, Marilene Borges da Silva, Marco Andrey Pepato, Francisco José Dutra Souto, Raquel Alves dos Santos, Carmen Lucia Bassi-Branco/ PAGE: 15-20 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140183

Decline of hepatitis C infection in hemodialysis patients in Central Brazil: a ten years of surveillance Megmar AS Carneiro, Sheila A Teles, Márcia A Dias, Renata C Ferreira, Alessandra V Naghettine, Simonne A Silva, Elisabeth Lampe, Clara FT Yoshida, Regina MB Martins PAGE: 345-349

Dried blood spots as a practical and inexpensive source for human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C virus surveillance Antonio Carlos de Castro Toledo Jr., José Nélio Januário, Renata Maria Silva Rezende, Arminda Lúcia Siqueira, Bernardo Freire de Mello, Érica Ligorio Fialho, Raquel Andrade Ribeiro, Hélia Lemos da Silva, Érika Carvalho Pires, Taynaná César Simões, Dirceu Bartolomeu Greco PAGE: 365-370

Hepatitis C and Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Different Hemodialysis Units in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil Solange U Busek, Élio H Babá, Hélcio A Tavares Filho, Lermíno Pimenta, Abraão Salomão, Rodrigo Corrêa-Oliveira, Guilherme C Oliveira PAGE: 775-778

Prevalence of Hepatitis C Virus Infection among Hemophiliacs in Central Brazil Adriana P Barbosa, Regina MB Martins, Sheila A Teles, Simonne A Silva, Jaqueline M Oliveira*, Clara FT Yoshida* PAGE: 643-644

Seroprevalence of Viral Hepatitis in Riverine Communities from the Western Region of the Brazilian Amazon Basin VSde Paula, ME Arruda, CLVitral, AMC Gaspar PAGE: 1123-1128

Hepatitis C Prevalence and Risk Factors in Hemodialysis Patients in Central Brazil: a Survey by Polymerase Chain Reaction and Serological Methods Megmar AS Carneiro, Regina MB Martins, Sheila A Teles, Simonne A Silva, Carmen L Lopes, Divina DP Cardoso, Bart OM Vanderborght, Clara FT Yoshida PAGE: 765-769

Prevalence of Antibodies to Hepatitis B Core Antigen in Blood Donors In the Middle West Region of Brazil José Ivan Aguiar, Eliana Aguiar, Anamaria Paniago, Rivaldo Cunha,Luciney Galvão, Roberto Daher PAGE: 185-187

Natural History of Hepatitis C M Roggendorf, H Meisel, S Viazov PAGE: 189-192

Inosine triphosphatase allele frequency and association with ribavirin-induced anaemia in Brazilian patients receiving antiviral therapy for chronic hepatitis C Nathália Delvaux, Vanessa Duarte da Costa, Maristella Matos da Costa, Livia Melo Villar, Henrique Sérgio Moraes Coelho, Eliane Bordalo Cathalá Esberard, Priscila Pollo Flores, Carlos Eduardo Brandão-Mello, Cristiane Alves Villela-Nogueira, Adilson José de Almeida, Elisabeth Lampe PAGE: 636-643 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760150104

Exposure source prevalence is associated with gender in hepatitis C virus patients from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Daniele Blasquez Olmedo, Patrícia Marraccini Precioso, António Lugdero-Correia, Guida da Silva, Angela Maria Guimarães dos Santos, Luís Cristóvão Pôrto PAGE: 632-639 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160553