Hepatitis
C
An Australian Perspective
Contents
Foreword
Notes on authors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1:
Living with hepatitis C: a constant bloody struggle
Genevieve Costigan
SECTION
1: THE VIRUS
Chapter 2: Virology and molecular virology of the hepatitis C virus
Phillip R Thompson and Stephen A Locarnini
Chapter 3:
Laboratory diagnosis of the hepatitis C virus infection
Scott Bowden
Chapter 4:
Towards a vaccine for the hepatitis C virus
Eric J Gowans
SECTION
2: THE DISEASE
Chapter 5: Pathology and pathogenesis of hepatitis C
David G Bowen, Amany Zekry and Geoffrey W McCaughan
Chapter 6:
Natural history of hepatitis C virus infection
Greg Dore
Chapter 7:
Extrahepatic manifestations of hepatitis C
Bryan Speed
Chapter 8:
Coinfection of hepatitis C virus and human immunodeficiency virus
Anne M Mijch
SECTION
3: CLINICAL MANAGEMENT
Chapter 9: Initial assessment and clinical monitoring of people with hepatitis
C
Greg Dore
Chapter 10:
An overview of antiviral therapy for chronic hepatitis C infection
William Sievert
Chapter 11:
Natural therapies and hepatitis C
Jim Arachne
Chapter 12:
Therapy decision-making for people with chronic hepatitis C
Greg Dore
SECTION
4: LIVING WITH THE VIRUS
Chapter 13: Quality of life
Sue Conrad, Michael Dunne, and Graeme Macdonald
Chapter 14:
Hepatitis C and discrimination
Chris Puplick
SECTION
5: THE EPIDEMIC
Chapter 15: Transmission of the hepatitis C virus infection
Margaret MacDonald, Nick Crofts, Alex Wodak, and John Kaldor
Chapter 16:
Descriptive epidemiology of HCV
Nick Crofts
Chapter 17:
The hepatitis C virus and transfusion medicine
Erica Wood, Patrick Coghlan, and Neil Boyce
Chapter 18:
Epidemiology of the hepatitis C virus among injecting drug users
Jane Hocking, Nick Crofts, Campbell Aitken, and Margaret MacDonald
SECTION
6: RESPONDING TO THE EPIDEMIC
Chapter 19: Hepatitis C: developing a policy response
Chris Puplick
Chapter 20:
Hepatitis C Councils in Australia
Stuart Loveday and Jack Wallace
Chapter 21:
Hepatitis C peer education
Jenny Kelsall and Michael Kerger
Chapter 22:
Gaining control of the hepatitis C virus epidemic in Australia
Nick Crofts and Alex Wodak
Glossary
Index