Hepatitis C virus among high and low risk pregnant women in Dundee: unlinked anonymous testing

Objective To determine the prevalence of the hepatitis C virus among pregnant women, to gauge the non‐injecting, particularly sexual, risk of them being hepatitis C virus infected and to assess the potential impact of selective antenatal screening.

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