Risk Factors for Hepatitis C Virus Transmission Obscure in Nigerian Patients

Aim. To determine the prevalence of anti-HCV and risk factors associated with HCV infection in Nigerians. Materials and Method. Patients attending a general outpatient clinic were administered a structured questionnaire on the risk factors for HCV infection. They were also tested for anti-HCV using...

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Autores principales: Obienu, Olive, Nwokediuko, Sylvester, Malu, Abraham, Lesi, Olufunmilayo A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Clinical Study
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3139196/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21785583
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/939673
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author Obienu, Olive
Nwokediuko, Sylvester
Malu, Abraham
Lesi, Olufunmilayo A.
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description Aim. To determine the prevalence of anti-HCV and risk factors associated with HCV infection in Nigerians. Materials and Method. Patients attending a general outpatient clinic were administered a structured questionnaire on the risk factors for HCV infection. They were also tested for anti-HCV using a third generation enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Result. The seroprevalence of anti-HCV was 4.7%. Among the risk factors evaluated, none was found to be significantly associated with anti-HCV seropositivity. Conclusion. The risk factors associated with HCV infection in Nigerian patients are obscure. This warrants further studies on the epidemiology of this important cause of liver disease.
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spelling pubmed-31391962011-07-22 Risk Factors for Hepatitis C Virus Transmission Obscure in Nigerian Patients Obienu, Olive Nwokediuko, Sylvester Malu, Abraham Lesi, Olufunmilayo A. Gastroenterol Res Pract Clinical Study Aim. To determine the prevalence of anti-HCV and risk factors associated with HCV infection in Nigerians. Materials and Method. Patients attending a general outpatient clinic were administered a structured questionnaire on the risk factors for HCV infection. They were also tested for anti-HCV using a third generation enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Result. The seroprevalence of anti-HCV was 4.7%. Among the risk factors evaluated, none was found to be significantly associated with anti-HCV seropositivity. Conclusion. The risk factors associated with HCV infection in Nigerian patients are obscure. This warrants further studies on the epidemiology of this important cause of liver disease. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-07-13 /pmc/articles/PMC3139196/ /pubmed/21785583 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/939673 Text en Copyright © 2011 Olive Obienu et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Risk Factors for Hepatitis C Virus Transmission Obscure in Nigerian Patients
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