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Journal articles
2018, 'Mortality trends among people with hepatitis B and C: A population-based linkage study, 1993-2012', BMC Infectious Diseases, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-018-3110-0
,2018, 'Trends in hepatocellular carcinoma incidence and survival among people with hepatitis C: An international study', Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 25, pp. 473 - 481, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvh.12837
,2018, 'Longitudinal injecting risk behaviours among people with a history of injecting drug use in an Australian prison setting: The HITS-p study', International Journal of Drug Policy, 54, pp. 18 - 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.12.013
,2018, '6th canadian symposium on hepatitis C virus: Delivering a cure for hepatitis c infection—what are the remaining gaps?', Canadian Liver Journal, 1, pp. 95 - 105, http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/canlivj.1.2.008
,2018, 'A165 SHORT INJECTION CESSATION EPISODES AS OPPORTUNITIES FOR HEPATITIS C PREVENTION', Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology, 1, pp. 286 - 287, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jcag/gwy008.166
,2018, 'A172 C-EDGE CO-STAR: RISK OF REINFECTION FOLLOWING SUCCESSFUL THERAPY WITH ELBASVIR (EBR) AND GRAZOPREVIR (GZR) IN PERSONS WHO INJECT DRUGS (PWID) RECEIVING OPIOD AGONIST THERAPY (OAT)', Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology, 1, pp. 299 - 300, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jcag/gwy008.173
,2018, 'A239 QUALITATIVE EVALUATION OF THE DECISIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF PEOPLE WHO INJECT DRUGS WHO RECEIVED A LIVER DISEASE ASSESSMENT AS PART OF A LIVER HEALTH PROMOTION CAMPAIGN: THE LIVERLIFE STUDY', Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology, 1, pp. 419 - 419, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jcag/gwy008.240
,2018, 'Hepatitis C: A Canadian perspective', Canadian Liver Journal, 1, pp. 1 - 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/canlivj.1.2.001
,2018, 'Sofosbuvir and velpatasvir for hepatitis C virus infection in people with recent injection drug use (SIMPLIFY): an open-label, single-arm, phase 4, multicentre trial', The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 3, pp. 153 - 161, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2468-1253(17)30404-1
,2018, 'The contribution of alcohol use disorder to decompensated cirrhosis among people with hepatitis C: An international study', Journal of Hepatology, 68, pp. 393 - 401, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2017.10.019
,2018, 'The role of prevention strategies in achieving HCV elimination in Canada: What are the remaining challenges?', Canadian Liver Journal, 1, pp. 15 - 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/canlivj.1.2.003
,2018, 'Restrictions for reimbursement of interferon-free direct-acting antiviral drugs for HCV infection in Europe', The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 3, pp. 125 - 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2468-1253(17)30284-4
,2018, 'Sofosbuvir-based direct-acting antiviral therapies for HCV in people receiving opioid substitution therapy: An analysis of phase 3 studies', Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy001
,2018, 'Drug use and phylogenetic clustering of hepatitis C virus infection among people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada: A latent class analysis approach', Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 25, pp. 28 - 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvh.12758
,2018, 'HCV avidity as a tool for detection of recent HCV infection: Sensitivity depends on HCV genotype', Journal of Medical Virology, 90, pp. 120 - 130, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmv.24919
,2018, 'The Effect of Female Sex on Hepatitis C Incidence among People Who Inject Drugs: Results from the International Multicohort InC3 Collaborative', Clinical Infectious Diseases, 66, pp. 20 - 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/cix768
,2018, 'Comparing the prevention gains of different treatment strategies at the global, regional, and country level: a modelling study', Journal of Hepatology, 68, pp. S179 - S180, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0168-8278(18)30571-3
,2018, 'One-year injecting frequency trajectories as predictors of hepatitis C acquisition: findings from an observational cohort study of people who inject drugs in Montréal, Canada', Journal of Hepatology, 68, pp. S189 - S189, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0168-8278(18)30590-7
,2018, 'The contribution of injecting drug use to Hepatitis C virus transmission globally, regionally, and at country level: a modelling study', Journal of Hepatology, 68, pp. S179 - S179, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0168-8278(18)30570-1
,2017, 'Hepatitis C point-of-care diagnostics: in search of a single visit diagnosis', Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics, 17, pp. 1109 - 1115, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14737159.2017.1400385
,2017, 'Global prevalence of injecting drug use and sociodemographic characteristics and prevalence of HIV, HBV, and HCV in people who inject drugs: a multistage systematic review', The Lancet Global Health, 5, pp. e1192 - e1207, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(17)30375-3
,2017, 'Global, regional, and country-level coverage of interventions to prevent and manage HIV and hepatitis C among people who inject drugs: a systematic review', The Lancet Global Health, 5, pp. e1208 - e1220, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(17)30373-X
,2017, 'Hepatocellular carcinoma risk following direct-acting antiviral HCV therapy: A systematic review, meta-analyses, and meta-regression', Journal of Hepatology, 67, pp. 1204 - 1212, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2017.07.025
,2017, 'Direct-Acting antiviral agents for HCV infection affecting people who inject drugs', Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 14, pp. 641 - 651, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrgastro.2017.106
,2017, 'Estimating the number of people who inject drugs in Australia', BMC Public Health, 17, pp. 757, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4785-7
,2017, '‘I didn't want to let it go too far.’ The decisions and experiences of people who inject drugs who received a liver disease assessment as part of a liver health promotion campaign: The LiveRLife study', International Journal of Drug Policy, 47, pp. 153 - 160, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.06.001
,2017, 'Changes in risk behaviours during and following treatment for hepatitis C virus infection among people who inject drugs: The ACTIVATE study', International Journal of Drug Policy, 47, pp. 230 - 238, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.05.040
,2017, 'Efficacy of response-guided directly observed pegylated interferon and self-administered ribavirin for people who inject drugs with hepatitis C virus genotype 2/3 infection: The ACTIVATE study', International Journal of Drug Policy, 47, pp. 177 - 186, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.05.020
,2017, 'Elimination of hepatitis C virus infection among PWID: The beginning of a new era of interferon-free DAA therapy', International Journal of Drug Policy, 47, pp. 26 - 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.08.001
,2017, 'Estimating the cascade of hepatitis C testing, care and treatment among people who inject drugs in Australia', International Journal of Drug Policy, 47, pp. 77 - 85, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.05.022
,2017, 'Interventions to enhance testing, linkage to care and treatment uptake for hepatitis C virus infection among people who inject drugs: A systematic review', International Journal of Drug Policy, 47, pp. 34 - 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.07.002
,2017, 'Ongoing incident hepatitis C virus infection among people with a history of injecting drug use in an Australian prison setting, 2005-2014: The HITS-p study', Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 24, pp. 733 - 741, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvh.12701
,2017, 'Research priorities to achieve universal access to hepatitis C prevention, management and direct-acting antiviral treatment among people who inject drugs', International Journal of Drug Policy, 47, pp. 51 - 60, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.05.019
,2017, 'Evaluation of the Xpert HCV Viral Load point-of-care assay from venepuncture-collected and finger-stick capillary whole-blood samples: a cohort study', The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2, pp. 514 - 520, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2468-1253(17)30075-4
,2017, 'Hepatitis C virus core antigen: A simplified treatment monitoring tool, including for post-treatment relapse', Journal of Clinical Virology, 92, pp. 32 - 38, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcv.2017.05.007
,2017, 'New developments and opportunities for preventing hepatitis C virus (HCV) among people who use and inject drugs—announcing an Addiction series', Addiction, 112, pp. 1126 - 1127, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.13847
,2017, 'Adherence to response-guided pegylated interferon and ribavirin for people who inject drugs with hepatitis C virus genotype 2/3 infection: The ACTIVATE study', BMC Infectious Diseases, 17, pp. 420, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2517-3
,2017, 'HCV Cure and Reinfection Among People With HIV/HCV Coinfection and People Who Inject Drugs', Current HIV/AIDS Reports, 14, pp. 110 - 121, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11904-017-0358-8
,2017, 'A molecular transmission network of recent hepatitis C infection in people with and without HIV: Implications for targeted treatment strategies', Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 24, pp. 404 - 411, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvh.12652
,2017, 'Direct-acting antivirals for acute HCV: how short can we go?', The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2, pp. 316 - 318, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2468-1253(17)30043-2
,2017, 'HCV reinfection incidence among individuals treated for recent infection', Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 24, pp. 359 - 370, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvh.12666
,2017, 'IFN-λ3, not IFN-λ4, likely mediates IFNL3-IFNL4 haplotype-dependent hepatic inflammation and fibrosis', Nature Genetics, 49, pp. 795 - 800, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ng.3836
,2017, 'Geographic differences in temporal incidence trends of hepatitis C virus infection among people who inject drugs: The InC3 collaboration', Clinical Infectious Diseases, 64, pp. 860 - 869, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciw869
,2017, 'HEPATITIS C VIRUS (HCV) REINFECTION AND INJECTION RISK BEHAVIOR FOLLOWING ELBASVIR/GRAZOPREVIR (EBR/GZR) TREATMENT IN PATIENTS ON OPIOID AGONIST THERAPY (OAT): CO-STAR THREE-YEAR FOLLOW-UP STUDY', GASTROENTEROLOGY, 152, pp. S1058 - S1059, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0016-5085(17)33575-8
,2017, 'Limited naturally occurring escape in broadly neutralizing antibody epitopes in hepatitis C glycoprotein E2 and constrained sequence usage in acute infection', Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 49, pp. 88 - 96, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2017.01.006
,2017, 'Treatment of HCV in persons who inject drugs: Treatment as prevention', Clinical Liver Disease, 9, pp. 77 - 80, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cld.626
,2017, 'Global prevalence and genotype distribution of hepatitis C virus infection in 2015: A modelling study', The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2, pp. 161 - 176, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2468-1253(16)30181-9
,2017, 'Dynamic evolution of hepatitis C virus resistance-associated substitutions in the absence of antiviral treatment', Scientific Reports, 7, pp. 41719, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep41719
,2017, 'Analysis of resistance-associated substitutions in acute hepatitis C virus infection by deep sequencing across six genotypes and three continents', Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 24, pp. 37 - 42, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvh.12615
,2017, 'Chronic hepatitis C burden and care cascade in Australia in the era of interferon-based treatment', Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Australia), 32, pp. 229 - 236, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jgh.13453
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