BMC Infectious Diseases

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A national cross-sectional study among drug-users in France: epidemiology of HCV and highlight on practical and statistical aspects of the design

Marie Jauffret-Roustide1,2*, Yann Le Strat1, Elisabeth Couturier1, Damien Thierry3, Marc Rondy2, Martine Quaglia4, Nicolas Razafandratsima4, Julien Emmanuelli1, Gaelle Guibert2, Francis Barin3 and Jean-Claude Desenclos1

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1 Infectious Diseases Departement, National Institute for Public Health Surveillance, Saint-Maurice, France

2 Center for Research in Psychotropics, Health, Mental Health and Society, UMR CNRS 8136, University Paris Descartes, Inserm U611, Paris, France

3 François-Rabelais University, Inserm ERI 19 and CHU Bretonneau, National Reference Center for HIV, Tours, France

4 National Institute of Demographic Studies, Paris, France

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BMC Infectious Diseases 2009, 9:113 doi:10.1186/1471-2334-9-113

Published: 16 July 2009

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Appendix. Evaluation of the performance of the HCV EIA on dried blot spots.

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