Moleculo-epidemiology of C hepatitis virus infection in harlots in Hanoi

ABSTRACT

The incidence and genotype of endemic C hepatitis in Hanoi female sex workers at the social re-education centre belonging to Hanoi Office of Invalid – Labor – Social, which was determined in a cross-sectional study – had show that most of female sex workers there acquired almost genotypes of C hepatitis – 1a, 1b, 1ab, 1c, 6, 6a, 9a. The risk of their hepatitis infection was higher in the group of intravenous drug use than in the groups without drug use