Guest edited by Prof. Carlo Torti (University Magna Graecia, Italy), Prof. Elijah Paintsil (Yale School of Medicine. USA) and Prof. Peter Nyasulu (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), this collection aims to bring together original research articles and systematic reviews characterizing the benefits and detriments of COVID-19 pandemic health policies on prevention, transmission, diagnosis, and treatment of the whole spectrum of infectious diseases.
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The 2020 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice for their discovery of Hepatitis C virus. In celebration of what they started and showcasing areas of research that have since emerged, we here present a collection of articles from the BMC Biology, BMC Medicine, Genome Medicine and the BMC Series Journals on biology, diagnosis and treatment and wider public health and medical outcomes of the Hepatitis C virus and its infection.
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184 days from submission to acceptance
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Citation Impact
3.090 - 2-year Impact Factor
3.401 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.581 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.278 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
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