Gastroenterology
Volume 136, Issue 5 , Pages 1609-1617 , May 2009

Evidence of a Large, International Network of HCV Transmission in HIV-Positive Men Who Have Sex With Men

  • Thijis van de Laar

      Affiliations

    • Cluster of Infectious Diseases, Health Service, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Oliver Pybus

      Affiliations

    • Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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  • Sylvia Bruisten

      Affiliations

    • Cluster of Infectious Diseases, Health Service, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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  • David Brown

      Affiliations

    • UCL Centre for Hepatology, Royal Free Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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  • Mark Nelson

      Affiliations

    • Department of HIV Medicine, Chelsea and Westminster Hospitals, London, United Kingdom
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  • Sanjay Bhagani

      Affiliations

    • Department of HIV Medicine, Royal Free and University College, London, United Kingdom
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  • Martin Vogel

      Affiliations

    • Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik I, Bonn University, Bonn, Germany
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  • Alex Baumgarten

      Affiliations

    • Practice Dupke/Carganico/Baumgarten, Berlin, Germany
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  • Marie-Laure Chaix

      Affiliations

    • University Paris Descartes EA3620, Virology CHU Necker AP-HP, Paris, France
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  • Martin Fisher

      Affiliations

    • Department of HIV Medicine, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust, Brighton, United Kingdom
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  • Hannelore Gőtz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Infectious Diseases, Health Service, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Gail V. Matthews

      Affiliations

    • National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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  • Stefan Neifer

      Affiliations

    • Practice Dupke/Carganico/Baumgarten, Berlin, Germany
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  • Peter White

      Affiliations

    • School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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  • William Rawlinson

      Affiliations

    • School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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  • Stanislav Pol

      Affiliations

    • Hepatology Unit, Cochin Hospital/University Paris-Descartes, Paris France
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  • Jurgen Rockstroh

      Affiliations

    • Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik I, Bonn University, Bonn, Germany
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  • Roel Coutinho

      Affiliations

    • Cluster of Infectious Diseases, Health Service, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
    • Department of Human Retrovirology, Academic Medical Centre/University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Greg J. Dore

      Affiliations

    • National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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  • Geoffrey M. Dusheiko

      Affiliations

    • UCL Centre for Hepatology, Royal Free Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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  • M. Danta

      Affiliations

    • UCL Centre for Hepatology, Royal Free Hospital, London, United Kingdom
    • St. Vincent's Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests Address requests for reprints to: Mark Danta, MD, St. Vincent's Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW, Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia. fax: (612) 8382 2794

Received 8 August 2008 ,Accepted 5 February 2009.

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 Conflicts of interest The authors disclose no conflicts.

 Funding Supported by Special Trustees of Royal Free & University College Medical School Fellowship (to M.D.), Peter Samuel Fellowship (to M.D.), UNSW Faculty Research Grant 2008 (to M.D.), and Health Service Amsterdam; Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development Grant 912-03-005 (T.vdL.); and the National Institutes of Health Grant R01 DA 15999 (to G.D. and G.M.).

PII: S0016-5085(09)00184-X

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2009.02.006

Gastroenterology
Volume 136, Issue 5 , Pages 1609-1617 , May 2009

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