Table 1. Baseline characteristics of the acute hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected patients.
Number of subjects | 38 |
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Gender (%) | |
Women | 19 (50.0) |
Men | 19 (50.0) |
Mean age (SD) | 36.3 (13.2) |
Race (%) | |
White | 29 (76.3) |
Hispanic | 4 (10.5) |
Black | 3 (7.9) |
Other | 2 (5.3) |
Mode of transmission (%) | |
Intravenous drug use | 24 (61.5) |
Sexual | 6 (15.4) |
Unknown | 4 (10.6) |
Other | 5 (12.8) |
Genotype (%) | |
1 (%) | 26 (68.4) |
2 (%) | 1 (2.6) |
3 (%) | 5 (10.6) |
Unknown (%) | 4 (10.4) |
HCV RNA (SD) | 934 887 (1 786 543) |