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Table IDisease-7. Incidence of hepatitis C virus antibody among injecting drug users


Country	Year	Number of IDUs followed	Number of sero-conversions	Follow-up in person years	Incidence rate (per 100 person years)	Reference

Germany	1993-1994	19	6	17.5	34.3	11
Italy	1991-1993	106	21	74.3	28.2	9
Italy	1992-1993	34	2	32.1	6.2	10
Italy	1992-1994	12	5	12.7	39.3	26
Netherlands	1986-1989	18	17	207.8	8.2	22
Slovakia		623	na	na	10	2
Sweden	1990-1993	48	27	103	26.3	6


Sources:
All data except for Slovak Republic were taken from: Roy K, Hay G, Andragetti R, Taylor A, Goldberg D, Wiessing L. Monitoring hepatitis C virus infection among injecting drug users in the European Union: a review of the literature. Epidemiol Infect 2002; 129: 577-585.
For references see [Table IDisease-0 Part (i)]

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