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Khan Shaz Shahzeb, Ullah Noor, que Iqra Rafi. Prevalence of Hepatitis B and C in District Dir Upper, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Global Journal of Clinical Virology 2019; 4(1) doi: 10.17352/gjcv.000006
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Muhammad Zuhaib Khan, Aneela Hussain, Jawad Akhter, Muhammad Manzoor, Hanif Ullah, Irshad Ahmad. Prevalence of HCV Infection in General Population of District Malakand, Pakistan: A Comparative Analysis of the Diagnostic Techniques. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering 2017; 42(6) doi: 10.1007/s13369-016-2337-6
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L. I Nikolaeva, D. N Behzadpour. Epidemiological situation with hepatitis C in Iran. Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases 2015; 20(3) doi: 10.17816/EID40899
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Sidra Maqsood, Sarosh Iqbal, Rubeena Zakar, Muhammad Zakria Zakar, Florian Fischer. Determinants of overall knowledge and health behaviours in relation to hepatitis B and C among ever-married women in Pakistan: evidence based on Demographic and Health Survey 2017–18. BMC Public Health 2021; 21(1) doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-12406-z
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Behzad Hajarizadeh, Jason Grebely, Gregory J. Dore. Epidemiology and natural history of HCV infection. Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology 2013; 10(9) doi: 10.1038/nrgastro.2013.107
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Shahid Mehmood, Hassan Raza, Farhan Abid, Nouman Saeed, Hafiz Muzzammel Rehman, Safdar Javed, Muhammad Saleem Khan. National prevalence rate of hepatitis B and C in Pakistan and its risk factors. Journal of Public Health 2020; 28(6) doi: 10.1007/s10389-019-01081-5
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Yasir Waheed, Umar Saeed, Sher Zaman Safi, Waqas Nasir Chaudhry, Ishtiaq Qadri. Awareness and risk factors associated with barbers in transmission of hepatitis B and C from Pakistani population: barber’s role in viral transmission. Asian Biomedicine 2010; 4(3) doi: 10.2478/abm-2010-0053
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Shamim Saleha, Anwar Kamal, Farman Ullah, Nasar Khan, Asif Mahmood, Sanaullah Khan. Prevalence of Hepatitis C Virus Genotypes in District Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Hepatitis Research and Treatment 2014; 2014 doi: 10.1155/2014/165826
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Rising burden of Hepatitis C Virus in hemodialysis patients. Virology Journal 2011; 8(1) doi: 10.1186/1743-422X-8-438
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Nighat Karim. Hepatitis C In Pakistan: An Alarming Threat. i-manager's Journal on Nursing 2015;  doi: 10.26634/jnur.5.3.3625
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Håvard Midgard, Christina Bang, Nils Raknerud, Olav Dalgard. Liver fibrosis in hepatitis C patients of Pakistani versus Scandinavian origin. Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology 2010; 45(12) doi: 10.3109/00365521.2010.510571
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Muhammad Numan, Mateen Jabbar, Aizza Zafar, Humera Javed, Sonia Younas, Khalid Omer Abdalla Abosalif, Kashaf Junaid, Ayman Ali Mohammed Alameen, Abualgasim Elgaili Abdalla, Muhammad Usman Qamar, Hasan Ejaz. Prevalence, Genotypic Distribution and the associated Risk Factors of Hepatitis C Infection in Pakistan Pediatric Patients. Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology 2022; 16(1) doi: 10.22207/JPAM.16.1.01
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Sanaa M. Kamal, Dahlia Ghoraba. Hepatitis C in Developing Countries. 2018;  doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-803233-6.00002-3
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Christina Mattlinger, Jörg Oliver Thumfart, Wilma Heinen, Harald Michels, Manfred Berres, Manfred Vogt, Michael Jansky. Hepatitis-C-Virus Seroprävalenz und Abhängigkeit vom Herkunftsland bei Flüchtlingen in Rheinland-Pfalz/Deutschland im Jahr 2015. Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz 2018; 61(11) doi: 10.1007/s00103-018-2816-x
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Umar Saeed, Yasir Waheed, Muhammad Ashraf, Usman Waheed, Sadia Anjum, Muhammad Sohail Afzal. Estimation of Hepatitis B Virus, Hepatitis C Virus, and Different Clinical Parameters in the Thalassemic Population of Capital Twin Cities of Pakistan. Virology: Research and Treatment 2015; 6 doi: 10.4137/VRT.S31744
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Navid Omidifar, Ahmad Sheykhfard, Nika Nikmanesh, Mansoureh Shokripour, Yousef Nikmanesh. Analysis of the Results of Hepatitis B and C Molecular Tests in Southern Iran from 2018 to 2022, the Possibility of Hepatitis C Genotype Change in the Region. Advanced Biomedical Research 2025; 14(1) doi: 10.4103/abr.abr_148_24
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Suraj A. Sharma, Jordan J. Feld. Acute Hepatitis C: Management in the Rapidly Evolving World of HCV. Current Gastroenterology Reports 2014; 16(2) doi: 10.1007/s11894-014-0371-7
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Sarfraz Ahmed, Adeela Zahoor, Muhammad Ibrahim, Muhammad Younus, Sadia Nawaz, Rahat Naseer, Qaiser Akram, Cun-Liang Deng, Suvash Chandra Ojha. Enhanced Efficacy of Direct-Acting Antivirals in Hepatitis C Patients by Coadministration of Black Cumin and Ascorbate as Antioxidant Adjuvants. Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity 2020; 2020 doi: 10.1155/2020/7087921
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Samina Ejaz, Iqra Abdullah, Waqas Nazir Malik, Shazia Anjum, Muhammad Ashraf, Naveed Akhtar, Aurangzeb Khan, Yasir Hameed, Muhammad Usman, Usman Cheema, Safeena Sidiq. Screening of hepatitis B and C viral infection, recognition of risk factors, and immunization of patients against hepatitis B virus: a module developed for effective hepatitis control. Frontiers in Public Health 2023; 11 doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1269209
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Ahmad Farooq, Usman Waheed, Hasan Abbas Zaheer, Fahad Aldakheel, Shatha Alduraywish, Muhammad Arshad, Wenyu Lin. Detection of HBsAg mutants in the blood donor population of Pakistan. PLOS ONE 2017; 12(11) doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0188066
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Masao Omata, Tatsuo Kanda, Lai Wei, Ming-Lung Yu, Wang-Long Chuang, Alaaeldin Ibrahim, Cosmas Rinaldi Adithya Lesmana, Jose Sollano, Manoj Kumar, Ankur Jindal, Barjesh Chander Sharma, Saeed S. Hamid, A. Kadir Dokmeci, Mamun Al-Mahtab, Geofferey W. McCaughan, Jafri Wasim, Darrell H. G. Crawford, Jia-Horng Kao, Osamu Yokosuka, George K. K. Lau, Shiv Kumar Sarin. APASL consensus statements and recommendations for hepatitis C prevention, epidemiology, and laboratory testing. Hepatology International 2016; 10(5) doi: 10.1007/s12072-016-9736-3
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Narmeen Rana, Bushra Munir, Nazeer Hussain, Nazia Imtiaz, Asif Gondal, Fahed Parvaiz. Seroprevalence, Biochemical Investigation and Risk Factor Assessment for HBV & HCV Infection in Hospital Based Patients of Islamabad, Pakistan. Journal of Bioresource Management 2020; 7(2) doi: 10.35691/JBM.0202.0127
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Aleena Haqqi, Rimsha Munir, Muhammad Khalid, Muhammad Khurram, Muhammad Zaid, Muhammad Ali, Zaheer Hussain Shah, Haroon Ahmed, Muhammad Sohail Afzal. Prevalence of Hepatitis C Virus Genotypes in Pakistan: Current Scenario and Review of Literature. Viral Immunology 2019; 32(9) doi: 10.1089/vim.2019.0058
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Sajjad Ahmad, Farah Shahid, Muhammad Tahir ul Qamar, Habib ur Rehman, Sumra Wajid Abbasi, Wasim Sajjad, Saba Ismail, Faris Alrumaihi, Khaled S. Allemailem, Ahmad Almatroudi, Hafiz Fahad Ullah Saeed. Immuno-Informatics Analysis of Pakistan-Based HCV Subtype-3a for Chimeric Polypeptide Vaccine Design. Vaccines 2021; 9(3) doi: 10.3390/vaccines9030293
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Sanaullah Khan, Sobia Attaullah, Sultan Ayaz, Shahid Niaz Khan, Sumaira Shams, Ijaz Ali, Muhammad Bilal, Sami Siraj. Molecular epidemiology of hcv among health care workers of khyber pakhtunkhwa. Virology Journal 2011; 8(1) doi: 10.1186/1743-422X-8-105
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Muhammad Ikram Anwar, Mazhar Iqbal, Mohammad S Yousef, Moazur Rahman. Over-expression and characterization of NS3 and NS5A of Hepatitis C virus genotype 3a. Microbial Cell Factories 2013; 12(1) doi: 10.1186/1475-2859-12-111
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Lenka Benova, Susanne Faissal Awad, Laith Jamal Abu‐Raddad. Estimate of vertical transmission of Hepatitis C virus in Pakistan in 2007 and 2012 birth cohorts. Journal of Viral Hepatitis 2017; 24(12) doi: 10.1111/jvh.12748
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Abidullah Khan, Maimoona Ayub, Wazir Mohammad Khan. Hyperammonemia Is Associated with Increasing Severity of Both Liver Cirrhosis and Hepatic Encephalopathy. International Journal of Hepatology 2016; 2016 doi: 10.1155/2016/6741754
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Hafsa Aziz, Muzaffar Latif Gil, Yasir Waheed, Uzama Adeeb, Abida Raza, Iram Bilal, Muhammad Amin Athar. Evaluation of prognostic factors for Peg Interferon alfa-2b plus ribavirin treatment on HCV infected patients in Pakistan. Infection, Genetics and Evolution 2011; 11(3) doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.01.022
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Karima Chaabna, Sohaila Cheema, Amit Abraham, Hekmat Alrouh, Albert B Lowenfels, Patrick Maisonneuve, Ravinder Mamtani. Systematic overview of hepatitis C infection in the Middle East and North Africa. World Journal of Gastroenterology 2018; 24(27): 3038-3054 doi: 10.3748/wjg.v24.i27.3038
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Asifa Hina. Syringe Reuse in Pakistan: A Systematic Review of Unsafe Injection Practices and Their Public Health Consequences. Trends in Pharmacology and Toxicology 2025; 1(1) doi: 10.21124/tpt.2025.33.39
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Madiha Akram, Muhammad Idrees, Abrar Hussain, Samia Afzal, Muhammad Ilyas, Shamail Zafar, Mahwish Aftab, Sadaf Badar, Bushra Khubaib. Characterization of Hepatitis C Virus genotype 3a Hypervariable region 1 in patients achieved rapid virological response to alpha interferon and Ribavirin Combination therapy. Virology Journal 2011; 8(1) doi: 10.1186/1743-422X-8-253
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Ismat Lotia-Farrukh, Rabia Maniar, Zulfiqar Ali Dharejo, Abdul Rabb Khatri, Annum Aftab, Ahwaz Akhtar, Asadullah Mir, Pardeep Kumar, Nabeel Nisar, Minhal Hyder, Muhammad Tariq Mangrio, Samreen Qureshi, Beatrice Kirubi, Jacob Creswell, Uzma Khan. Hepatitis C burden in rural and periurban Sindh, Pakistan: insights into prevalence and the urgent need for targeted health services. BMJ Public Health 2026; 4(1) doi: 10.1136/bmjph-2025-003512
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Asad Zia, Sumra Wajid Abbasi, Shabeer Ahmad, Muhammad Zia, Abida Raza. Phylogenetic analysis, structure modeling and docking study of HCV NS3 protease for the identification of potent inhibitors. Infection, Genetics and Evolution 2018; 59 doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2018.01.026
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M GOHAR, IU REHMAN, J AHMAD, F AHMAD, K BASHIR, S IKRAM, N HASSAN, MA KHAN, A ULLAH. PREVALENCE OF HEPATITIS B VIRUS AND GENOTYPES IN THE REGION OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA PAKISTAN. Bulletin of Biological and Allied Sciences Research 2023; 2023(1) doi: 10.54112/bbasr.v2023i1.53
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Zulfikar A Gorar, Zahid A Butt, Imrana Aziz. Risk factors for bloodborne viral hepatitis in healthcare workers of Pakistan: a population based case–control study. BMJ Open 2014; 4(7) doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-004767
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Yasir Waheed, Muzammil Hasan Najmi, Hafsa Aziz, Hasnain Waheed, Muhammad Imran, Sher Zaman Safi. Prevalence of hepatitis C in people who inject drugs in the cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan. Biomedical Reports 2017; 7(3) doi: 10.3892/br.2017.959
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Prevalence and Risk Factors of Asymptomatic Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Bangladesh. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology 2011; 1(1) doi: 10.1016/S0973-6883(11)60111-4
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Muhammad Ikram Anwar, Moazur Rahman, Mahmood Ul Hassan, Mazhar Iqbal. Prevalence of active hepatitis C virus infections among general public of Lahore, Pakistan. Virology Journal 2013; 10(1) doi: 10.1186/1743-422X-10-351
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Tassawar Ali, Nance Cunningham. Global Handbook of Health Promotion Research, Vol. 1. 2022;  doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-97212-7_10
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Samia Afzal, Muhammad Idrees, Iqra Almas, Shazia Rafique, Iram Amin, Muhammad Shahid. Study of inhibition of interferon inducible genes by dephosphorylation of E2 envelope gene of HCV genotype 1a. 2017 14th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology (IBCAST) 2017;  doi: 10.1109/IBCAST.2017.7868053
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Shahzeb Khan Shaz, Hamza Khan Swati, Yousaf Khan. Outbreak of hepatitis-B, epidemiology, and transmission in provinces of Pakistan. Modern Journal of Microbial Biology 2019; 1 doi: 10.25259/MJMB_5_2019
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Dedsy Yajaira Berbesi-Fernández, Angela Maria Segura-Cardona, Liliana Patricia Montoya-Velez, Alexandra Ángel Santamaría. Uso de heroína inyectada y el riesgo de hepatitis C en tres ciudades de Colombia. Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia 2017; 20(3) doi: 10.1590/1980-5497201700030007
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Hana A Elasifer, Yossif M Agnnyia, Basher A Al-Alagi, Mohamed A Daw. Epidemiological manifestations of hepatitis C virus genotypes and its association with potential risk factors among Libyan patients. Virology Journal 2010; 7(1) doi: 10.1186/1743-422X-7-317
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Syed Sikander Azam, Sumra Wajid Abbasi, Maria Batool. Structure modeling and docking study of HCV NS5B-3a RNA polymerase for the identification of potent inhibitors. Medicinal Chemistry Research 2014; 23(2) doi: 10.1007/s00044-013-0666-5
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E. VER HOEVE, A. J. CODLIN, F. JAWED, A. J. KHAN, L. SAMAD, K. M. VATCHEVA, M. B. FALLON, M. ALI, S. K. NIAZ, J. B. McCORMICK, S. P. FISHER-HOCH. Persisting role of healthcare settings in hepatitis C transmission in Pakistan: cause for concern. Epidemiology and Infection 2013; 141(9) doi: 10.1017/S0950268812002312
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Suraj Sharma, Manuel Carballo, Jordan J. Feld, Harry L.A. Janssen. Immigration and viral hepatitis. Journal of Hepatology 2015; 63(2) doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2015.04.026
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Mahrukh Akbar Shaheen, Muhammad Idrees. Evidence-based consensus on the diagnosis, prevention and management of hepatitis C virus disease. World Journal of Hepatology 2015; 7(3): 616-627 doi: 10.4254/wjh.v7.i3.616
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Yasir Waheed, Sher Zaman Safi, Ishtiaq Qadri. Role of Potash Alum in Hepatitis C virus Transmission at Barber's Shop. Virology Journal 2011; 8(1) doi: 10.1186/1743-422X-8-211
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Mubin Mustafa, Sofia Hussain, Saleem Qureshi, Salman Akbar Malik, Ali Raza Kazmi, Muhammad Naeem. Study of the effect of antiviral therapy on homocysteinemia in hepatitis C virus- infected patients. BMC Gastroenterology 2012; 12(1) doi: 10.1186/1471-230X-12-117
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Shahroz Khan, Ijaz Ali, Malik Badshah, Mohammad Qaiser Khan, Zahida Haider, Sajid Ali, Imtiaz Ali Khan, Anwar Ullah. Molecular Epidemiology of Hepatitis C Virus Genotypes Among Chronically Infected Patients in Pakistan. Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology 2019; (In Press) doi: 10.5812/jjm.86428
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Filippo Ansaldi, Andrea Orsi, Laura Sticchi, Bianca Bruzzone, Giancarlo Icardi. Hepatitis C virus in the new era: Perspectives in epidemiology, prevention, diagnostics and predictors of response to therapy. World Journal of Gastroenterology 2014; 20(29): 9633-9652 doi: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i29.9633
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Linh Tran, Mai Nhu Y, Thai Le Ba Nghia, Abdulrahman Hendam, Nguyen Lam Vuong, Ebrahim Alzalal, Ahmed M. Sayed, Mustafa Mushtaq Hussain, Akash Sharma, Thuan Tieu, Peterson Gitonga Mathenge, Kenji Hirayama, Neal Alexander, Nguyen Tien Huy. Frequent inappropriate use of unweighted summary statistics in systematic reviews of pathogen genotypes or genogroups. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2020; 119 doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2019.11.009
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Munazza Mansoor, William A. de Glanville, Ridwa Alam, Khawar Aslam, Mubashir Ahmed, Petros Isaakidis, Aneeta Pasha, Chrispin Chaguza. Prevalence and risk factors for hepatitis C virus infection in an informal settlement in Karachi, Pakistan. PLOS Global Public Health 2023; 3(9) doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0002076
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Asma Waheed Qureshi, Farah Jabeen, Madiha Mehmood. Sero-Prevalence of Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C in District Sialkot. Pakistan Journal of Health Sciences 2024;  doi: 10.54393/pjhs.v5i12.990
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Sobia Idrees. Rising Trend Of Hepatitis C: A Pakistani Perspective. i-manager's Journal on Nursing 2015;  doi: 10.26634/jnur.4.4.3074
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Sher Zaman Safi, Yasmin Badshah, Yasir Waheed, Kaneez Fatima, Sadia Tahir, Alamgir Shinwari, Ishtiaq Qadri. Distribution of hepatitis C virus genotypes, hepatic steatosis and their correlation with clinical and virological factors in Pakistan. Asian Biomedicine 2010; 4(2) doi: 10.2478/abm-2010-0032
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Yasir Waheed, Talha Bin-Rahat, Sher Zaman Safi, Ishtiaq Qadri. Epidemiological patterns and risk factors associated with hepatitis B virus in Pakistani population. Asian Biomedicine 2010; 4(4) doi: 10.2478/abm-2010-0069
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Immunochromatographic Technique for Seropositivity and PCR Based Molecular Diagnosis for Hepatis B and C Virus in a General Population of Mansehra Pakistan. Abasyn Journal Life Sciences 2020;  doi: 10.34091/AJLS.3.1.1
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Z. Z. Piracha, U. Saeed, R. Uppal, M. R. Uppal, A. Ahmad Khan, M. Abdullah, K. Mari, A. Basra, S. S. Gilani, M. N. Tariq, D. U. Ozsahin, B. Uzun, I. Ozsahin. Prevalence and clinical profile of hepatitis C virus infections in multitransfused thalassemic patients in the capital twin cities of Pakistan. Brazilian Journal of Biology 2024; 84 doi: 10.1590/1519-6984.284453
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Tanveer Ahmed Naveed, Imran Hussain Shah. Assessing Child Health Disparities: Evidence from a Household-Based Health Index in Punjab, Pakistan. Child Indicators Research 2024; 17(2) doi: 10.1007/s12187-024-10103-y
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Molecular study of HCV detection, genotypes and their routes of transmission in North West Frontier Province, Pakistan. Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine 2012; 2(7) doi: 10.1016/S2221-1691(12)60091-4
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Mehri Ghafourian-Boroujerdnia, Mohammad Ali Assarehzadegan, Khodamorad Zandian. Hepatitis B and C Infections and Different Genotypes of HCV Among Sickle Cell Anemia Patients in Ahvaz, South-Western Iran. Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology 2013; 6(5) doi: 10.5812/jjm.6368
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Qi Wei Tan, Michelle Felicia Lee, Yuan Seng Wu, Sheryar Afzal, Appalaraju Velaga, Mahendran Sekar, Neeraj Kumar Fuloria, Shivkanya Fuloria, Md Moklesur Rahman Sarker, Rhanye Mac Guad, Ali Attiq, Vetriselvan Subramaniyan, Subash C.B. Gopinath, Ker Woon Choy. Geraniin as an antiviral agent: Chemistry and biological profiles, preventive and therapeutic effects on various viruses and associated molecular mechanisms. South African Journal of Botany 2026; 189 doi: 10.1016/j.sajb.2025.12.024
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D. Lavanchy. Evolving epidemiology of hepatitis C virus. Clinical Microbiology and Infection 2011; 17(2) doi: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03432.x
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Muhammad Sohail Afzal, Muhammad Yousaf Khan, Muhammad Ammar, Sadia Anjum, Najm us Sahar Sadaf Zaidi. Diagnostically untypable hepatitis C virus variants: It is time to resolve the problem. World Journal of Gastroenterology 2014; 20(46): 17690-17692 doi: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i46.17690
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Shahzad Zafar Iqbal, R. Russell M. Paterson, Ijaz A. Bhatti, Muhammad R. Asi. Comparing aflatoxin contamination in chilies from Punjab, Pakistan produced in summer and winter. Mycotoxin Research 2011; 27(2) doi: 10.1007/s12550-010-0078-z
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Saeed Mohammadi Nezhad, Atefeh Esmailnejad, Mohammad Sadegh Sanie, Hassan Ali Abedi, Homa Niknam. Prevalence of hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and human immunodeficiency virus infections among hemophilia patients in Shiraz, south of Iran. Comparative Clinical Pathology 2016; 25(5) doi: 10.1007/s00580-016-2286-1
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Sami Ullah, Muhammad Akram Khan, Shafiq Ur Rahman, Imran Khan, Fazal Akbar, Anshu Babbar. Molecular characterization and clinical epidemiology of HCV in District Dir (Lower), Pakistan. VirusDisease 2018; 29(3) doi: 10.1007/s13337-018-0457-1
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Muhammad Imran, Yasir Waheed, Sobia Manzoor, Muhammad Bilal, Waseem Ashraf, Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Ashraf. Interaction of Hepatitis C virus proteins with pattern recognition receptors. Virology Journal 2012; 9(1) doi: 10.1186/1743-422X-9-126
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Kashif Iqbal Sahibzada, Rizwan Abid, Haseeb Nisar, Reham A. Abd El Rahman, Muhammad Idrees, Dong-Qing Wei, Yuansen Hu, Saima Sadaf. HCV genotyping and rational computational designing of an immunogenic multiepitope vaccine against genotype 3a. Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design 2025; 39(2) doi: 10.1007/s10822-025-00698-x
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Yasir Waheed. Effect of interferon plus ribavirin therapy on hepatitis C virus genotype 3 patients from Pakistan: Treatment response, side effects and future prospective. Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine 2015; 8(2) doi: 10.1016/S1995-7645(14)60193-0
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Kamiar Alaei, Mohammad Sarwar, Arash Alaei. The Urgency to Mitigate the Spread of Hepatitis C in Pakistan Through Blood Transfusion Reform. International Journal of Health Policy and Management 2017; 7(3) doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2017.120
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Sobia Attaullah, Sanaullah Khan, Jabbar Khan. Trend of transfusion transmitted infections frequency in blood donors: provide a road map for its prevention and control. Journal of Translational Medicine 2012; 10(1) doi: 10.1186/1479-5876-10-20
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Chunhua Li, Manqiong Yuan, Ling Lu, Teng Lu, Wenjie Xia, Van H. Pham, An X.D. Vo, Mindie H. Nguyen, Kenji Abe. The genetic diversity and evolutionary history of hepatitis C virus in Vietnam. Virology 2014;  doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2014.07.026
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M Rastin, M Mahmoudi, SA Rezaee, MA Assarehzadegan, N Tabasi, S Zamani, R Nosratabadi, D Haghmorad, A Sheikh, M Khazaee, HR Panah. Distribution of Hepatitis C virus genotypes in city of Mashhad, North-east of Iran. Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology 2014; 32(1) doi: 10.4103/0255-0857.124306
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Sirmast Faiz, Muhammad Irfan, Saba Farooq, Ishtiaq Ahmad Khan, Hana’a Iqbal, Atia-tul Wahab, Muhammad Shakeel, Peng Gong, Thomas Iftner, M. Iqbal Choudhary. Study of drug resistance-associated genetic mutations, and phylo-genetic analysis of HCV in the Province of Sindh, Pakistan. Scientific Reports 2023; 13(1) doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-39339-4
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Yasir Akbar Jamali, Jawad Ahmad, Mushtaq Hussain, Rashid Ali Arbani, Wali Muhammad Mangrio, Sham Lal. Prevalence of Hepatitis B and C Among Stroke Patients in Khairpur . Pakistan BioMedical Journal 2023;  doi: 10.54393/pbmj.v6i12.994
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Ashish William, Aroma Oberoi, Gurvinder Singh Chopra, Jasmine Das. PREVALENCE AND DETECTION OF GENOTYPE OF HEPATITIS C VIRUS IN CHRONIC RENAL DISEASE PATIENTS UNDERGOING HAEMODIALYSIS IN TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL IN PUNJAB. Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences 2016; 5(60) doi: 10.14260/jemds/2016/955
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Muhammad Ajmal Khan, Sumera Afzal Khan, Muhammad Hamayun, Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Idrees. Sequence Variability of HCV 3a Isolates Based On Core Gene in Patients From Lahore, Pakistan. Future Virology 2019; 14(10) doi: 10.2217/fvl-2019-0086
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Omar Hyder, Mohsin Ijaz, Muhammad Ateeq Arshad, Tahseen Zahira. Age-specific frequency of screen-detected hepatitis C virus seropositivity in men from the Punjab province of Pakistan. Journal of Medical Screening 2010; 17(4) doi: 10.1258/jms.2010.010101
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Taimoor Islam Sheikh, Tashfeen Adam, Ishtiaq Qadri. Upregulated hepatic expression of mitochondrial PEPCK triggers initial gluconeogenic reactions in the HCV-3 patients. Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine 2015; 8(8) doi: 10.1016/j.apjtm.2015.07.016
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Dedsy Berbesi, Angela Segura, Doris Cardona, Alejandra Agudelo. Factors associated with syringe exchange among injection drug users in Colombia. Journal of Substance Use 2017; 22(4) doi: 10.1080/14659891.2016.1223763
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Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Idrees, Liaqat Ali, Abrar Hussain, Irshad Ur Rehman, Sana Saleem, Samia Afzal, Sadia Butt. Hepatitis B virus in Pakistan: A systematic review of prevalence, risk factors, awareness status and genotypes. Virology Journal 2011; 8(1) doi: 10.1186/1743-422X-8-102
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A. M. Falla, A. A. Ahmad, E. Duffell, T. Noori, I. K. Veldhuijzen. Estimating the scale of chronic hepatitis C virus infection in the EU/EEA: a focus on migrants from anti-HCV endemic countries. BMC Infectious Diseases 2018; 18(1) doi: 10.1186/s12879-017-2908-5
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