Impact on mortality of being seropositive for hepatitis C virus antibodies among blood donors in Brazil: A twenty-year study

• Hélio Ranes de Menezes Filho,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, University of São Paulo, School of Medicine, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, Department of Health Sciences, Federal University of Jataí, Jataí, GO, Brazil

  ⨯
• Ana Luiza de Souza Bierrenbach,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa, Hospital Sírio-Libanês, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6837-0636

  ⨯
• Maria Ligia Damato Capuani,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, University of São Paulo, School of Medicine, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

  ⨯
• Alfredo Mendrone Jr.,

  Roles Conceptualization, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Hemocentro de São Paulo, Fundação Pró-Sangue, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

  ⨯
• Adele Schwartz Benzaken,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Heitor Vieira Dourado, Tropical Medicine Foundation, Manaus, Amazon, Brazil

  ⨯
• Soraia Mafra Machado,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, University of São Paulo, School of Medicine, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

  ⨯
• Marielena Vogel Saivish,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, Federal University of Jataí, Jataí, GO, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7627-621X

  ⨯
• Ester Cerdeira Sabino,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, University of São Paulo, School of Medicine, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

  ⨯
• Steven Sol Witkin,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

  ⨯
• Maria Cássia Mendes-Corrêa

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cassiamc@uol.com.br

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, University of São Paulo, School of Medicine, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-8108

  ⨯