HIV-Infected Men Who Have Sex with Men Who Identify Themselves as Belonging to Subcultures Are at Increased Risk for Hepatitis C Infection

Amy Matser; Joost Vanhommerig; Maarten F. Schim van der Loeff; Ronald B. Geskus; Henry J. C. de Vries; Jan M. Prins; Maria Prins; Sylvia M. Bruisten

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0057740

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HIV-Infected Men Who Have Sex with Men Who Identify Themselves as Belonging to Subcultures Are at Increased Risk for Hepatitis C Infection

Amy Matser ,

* E-mail: amatser@ggd.amsterdam.nl

Affiliations Cluster of Infectious Diseases, Public Health Service of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Julius Center for Health Science and Primary Health Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Joost Vanhommerig,

Affiliations Cluster of Infectious Diseases, Public Health Service of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Medical Microbiology, Academic Medical Center (AMC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Maarten F. Schim van der Loeff,

Affiliations Cluster of Infectious Diseases, Public Health Service of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Center for Infection and Immunology Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Center (AMC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Ronald B. Geskus,

Affiliations Cluster of Infectious Diseases, Public Health Service of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Henry J. C. de Vries,

Affiliations Cluster of Infectious Diseases, Public Health Service of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Center for Infection and Immunology Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Center (AMC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Dermatology, Academic Medical Center (AMC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands
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Jan M. Prins,

Affiliations Center for Infection and Immunology Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Center (AMC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Academic Medical Center (AMC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Maria Prins,

Affiliations Cluster of Infectious Diseases, Public Health Service of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Center for Infection and Immunology Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Center (AMC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Sylvia M. Bruisten

Affiliations Cluster of Infectious Diseases, Public Health Service of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Experimental Virology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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HIV-Infected Men Who Have Sex with Men Who Identify Themselves as Belonging to Subcultures Are at Increased Risk for Hepatitis C Infection

Amy Matser,
Joost Vanhommerig,
Maarten F. Schim van der Loeff,
Ronald B. Geskus,
Henry J. C. de Vries,
Jan M. Prins,
Maria Prins,
Sylvia M. Bruisten

Published: March 4, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0057740

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