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
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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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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author 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
author_facet 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
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description 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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spelling pubmed-31217102011-06-24 Prevalence of HCV among the high risk groups in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 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 Virol J Research 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. BioMed Central 2011-06-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3121710/ /pubmed/21663685 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-422X-8-296 Text en Copyright ©2011 Ali et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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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
Prevalence of HCV among the high risk groups in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
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title_full Prevalence of HCV among the high risk groups in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
title_fullStr Prevalence of HCV among the high risk groups in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence of HCV among the high risk groups in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
title_short Prevalence of HCV among the high risk groups in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
title_sort prevalence of hcv among the high risk groups in khyber pakhtunkhwa
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url 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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