ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2015
Transmission of Hepatitis C Virus among Prisoners, Australia, 2005-2012.
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- A Qualitative Systematic Review of Barriers and Facilitators to Hepatitis B and C Programmes in Prisons.Journal of viral hepatitis · 2025Pooled it
- Multiple Approaches to Genetic Sequencing to Identify Hepatitis C Virus Reinfection Among People Who Inject Drugs.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Estimating the impact of direct acting antiviral therapy on the prevalence of hepatitis C virus infection using phylogenetics.Virus research · 2025Article
- Identification of human progenitors of exhausted CD8Nature communications · 2022Article
- New hepatitis C virus infection, re-infection and associated risk behaviour in male Irish prisoners: a cohort study, 2019.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2021Article
- Prevalence of and risk factors for HBV and HCV among incarcerated people who inject drugs in Iran: A cross sectional study.BMC infectious diseases · 2020Article
- A Phylogenetic Analysis of Hepatitis C Virus Transmission, Relapse, and Reinfection Among People Who Inject Drugs Receiving Opioid Agonist Therapy.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2020Article
- Correlates of hepatitis C viral clustering among people who inject drugs in Baltimore.Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases · 2020Article
- Molecular surveillance of hepatitis C virus genotypes identifies the emergence of a genotype 4d lineage among men in Quebec, 2001-2017.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2019Article
- Evaluating peer-supported screening as a hepatitis C case-finding model in prisoners.Harm reduction journal · 2019Observational
- Inconsistent temporal patterns of genetic variation of HCV among high-risk subjects may impact inference of transmission networks.Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases · 2019Article
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- A policy analysis exploring hepatitis C risk, prevention, testing, treatment and reinfection within Australia's prisons.Harm reduction journal · 2018Article
- Complex patterns of Hepatitis-C virus longitudinal clustering in a high-risk population.Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases · 2018Article
- A molecular transmission network of recent hepatitis C infection in people with and without HIV: Implications for targeted treatment strategies.Journal of viral hepatitis · 2017Article
- Phylogenetic analysis of full-length, early infection, hepatitis C virus genomes among people with intravenous drug use: the InCJournal of viral hepatitis · 2017Article
- Incident Hepatitis C Virus Genotype Distribution and Multiple Infection in Australian Prisons.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2016Article
- Public health and international drug policy.Lancet (London, England) · 2016Review
- A method for near full-length amplification and sequencing for six hepatitis C virus genotypes.BMC genomics · 2016Article
- The Prevalence of Hepatitis B and C Among Prisoners in Kahramanmaras, Turkey.Jundishapur journal of microbiology · 2016Article
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Abstract
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is predominantly transmitted between persons who inject drugs. For this population, global prevalence of HCV infection is high and incarceration is common and an independent risk factor for HCV acquisition. To explore HCV transmission dynamics in incarcerated populations, we integrated virus sequences with risk behavior and spatiotemporal data and analyzed transmission clusters among prisoners in Australia. We detected 3 clusters of recent HCV transmission consisting of 4 likely in-custody transmission events involving source/recipient pairs located in the same prison at the same time. Of these 4 events, 3 were associated with drug injecting and equipment sharing. Despite a large population of prisoners with chronic HCV, recent transmission events were identified in the prison setting. This ongoing HCV transmission among high-risk prisoners argues for expansion of prevention programs to reduce HCV transmission in prisons.
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