Prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in Mumbai.
Indian J Med Sci
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1997 Oct; 51(10): 378-85
Artigo
em Inglês
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-68378
ABSTRACT
A study was carried out to determine the prevalence of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) in Mumbai among certain high risk groups such as renal transplant recipients, multitransfused and haemodialysis patients; professional and voluntary blood donors and viral hepatitis cases for comparison. Repeated testing of 602 subjects for antibodies to HCV using a second generation ELISA assay (Abbott, USA) showed an overall prevalence of 16.9%. We found 36.4% of multitransfused patients, 27.8% of renal failure cases and 26.2% of renal transplant recipients to be seropositive. Voluntary blood donors in our series showed a surprisingly high prevalence of 15.9%, and this group needs further investigation. Fifty-six of these sera (of which 45 were anti-HCV positive) were tested for HCV RNA by PCR and 14(31.1%) of the seropositive samples were also HCV RNA positive. The present investigation not only shows a high prevalence of HCV in the study groups but also proves the presence of HCV genomes in a significant proportion.
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Assunto principal:
Complicações Infecciosas na Gravidez
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População Rural
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Feminino
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Humanos
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Masculino
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Gravidez
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Testes Sorológicos
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Southern Blotting
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Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase
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Prevalência
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo diagnóstico
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Estudo de etiologia
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Estudo de prevalência
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Fatores de risco
País/Região como assunto:
Ásia
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Indian J Med Sci
Ano de publicação:
1997
Tipo de documento:
Artigo
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