Prevalence of HCV among the high risk groups in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Hepatitis C is an infectious disease, caused by blood borne pathogen; the Hepatitis C Virus. In this study we analyzed blood samples collected from various risk groups for the prevalence of anti-HCV and active HCV infection with the help of Immunochromtographic tests and nested PCR. The prevalence o...

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Autores principales: Ali, Ijaz, Siddique, Lubna, Rehman, Latif U, Khan, Najib U, Iqbal, Aqib, Munir, Iqbal, Rashid, Farzana, Khan, Sana U, Attache, Safira, Swati, Zahoor A, Aslam, Mehwish S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3121710/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21663685
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-422X-8-296
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Sumario:Hepatitis C is an infectious disease, caused by blood borne pathogen; the Hepatitis C Virus. In this study we analyzed blood samples collected from various risk groups for the prevalence of anti-HCV and active HCV infection with the help of Immunochromtographic tests and nested PCR. The prevalence of active HCV infection among the high risk groups was 15.57% (26/167). The prevalence of HCV in individual risk groups was 15%, 28%, 8%, 14.28% and 14.28% in the case of thalassemics, dialysis, major surgery group, dental surgery group and injection drug users respectively. Our analysis reveals the fact that health care facilities in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan are contributing a great deal towards the spread of HCV infection.

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