1997. High preva- lence of GBV-C hepatitis G virus infection in a rural South African population. J Med Virol 53:225-228.Tucker TJ,Louw SJ,Robin SC,et al.High prevalence of GBV-C hepatitis G virus infection in a rural South African population. Journal of Medical Virology . 1997...
The prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in 1 765 HIV-positive patients in rural Eastern Cape was 7.1%. This is lower than the previously reported rural prevalence and is similar to urban prevalence. Male sex and baseline alanine aminotransferease (ALT) were significant predictors of...
This study was carried out to estimate the prevalence of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) seropositivity in a cohort of people living with HIV and AIDS in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Southwestern Nigeria. HBV is a major public health concern as it afflicts an estimated 350 million people worldwide. A cle...
Within China, Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection remains widely prevalent and one of the major public health problems. There have been only two previous estimates of its prevalence at the population level in China, with the latest survey conducted in 2006. A meta-analysis estimated the prevalence...
Twitter Google Share on Facebook prevalence study An epidemiological study that measures the prevalence of a disease at a particular time. Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved. Want to thank TFD for its existence?Tell a friend about us, add a link to this ...
HIV infection appears to have a negative impact on the natural history of HBV infection. In immunocompromised patients, the chronicity rates of HBV infection are higher, but the rates of hepatitis Be antigen (HBeAg) and HBsAg loss and seroconversion to anti-HBe and anti-HBs are lower than tho...
The Prevalence and Transmission of Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Urban, Rural and Institutionalized Black Children of Natal/KwaZulu, South Africa The sera of statistically selected urban (805), rural (238) and institutionalized (127) black children were tested for markers of hepatitis B virus (HBV...
Hepatitis C virus genotyping in Greece: unexpected high prevalence of genotype 5a in a Greek island. Karatapanis Stylianos,Tsoplou Panagiota,Papastergiou Vasilios,Vasiageorgi Aggeliki,Stampori Maria,Saitis Ioannis,Tsitsopoulos Eustathios,Lisgos Phillipos,Skorda Lamprini,Ketikoglou Ioannis,Goulis ...
Semantic Scholar africabib.org 相似文献Prevalence of hepatitis C infection in pregnant women in South Australia To estimate the prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) seropositivity and known risk factors for HCV infection in a group of pregnant women.Cross-sectional ... JJ Garner,M, Gaughwin,J...
This sentence opened, five years ago, a review article on the hepatitis E virus (HEV) seroprevalence in developed countries, a matter of mystery for the authors of the review [1]. Though the infection by zoonotic HEV strains is actually endemic in these regions, there are still reasons, fiv...