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Prevalence of HCV, HBV, and HIV Seropositivity among Cadavers Referred to Autopsy Hall of Legal Medicine Bureau of Tehran, Iran
A large number of dead bodies are referred to forensic autopsy halls for medicolegal examination. They can be a source of transmission of infectious diseases through direct contact or autopsy tools. The main aim of this study was to estimate the virus infection rates in the dead bodies. One thousand...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5727642/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29318049 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/2043840 |
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author | Gharehdaghi, Jaber Abedi Khorasgani, Mohammad Hassan Ghadiani, Mohammad Hassan Kazemifar, Amir Mohammad Solhi, Hassan Solhi, Sadra |
author_facet | Gharehdaghi, Jaber Abedi Khorasgani, Mohammad Hassan Ghadiani, Mohammad Hassan Kazemifar, Amir Mohammad Solhi, Hassan Solhi, Sadra |
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description | A large number of dead bodies are referred to forensic autopsy halls for medicolegal examination. They can be a source of transmission of infectious diseases through direct contact or autopsy tools. The main aim of this study was to estimate the virus infection rates in the dead bodies. One thousand consecutive dead bodies that had been referred to autopsy hall of Legal Medicine Bureau of Tehran, Iran, during 2016, were included. The blood samples were analyzed in the laboratory for detection of HBs Ag, HBs Ab, HIV Ab, and HCV Ab, after providing informed consent from legal next of kin of the dead bodies. The general characteristics of the dead bodies were also collected by a checklist. Forty-seven cases of HIV seropositivity, 80 cases of HBs Ag seropositivity, and 97 cases for HCV Ab seropositivity were found. Among them, 27 cases of HIV, 40 cases of anti-HBC positive, and 94 cases of RIBA testing positive for HCV were proved through confirmatory tests. In other words, 2.6% of the dead bodies were infected with HIV, 3.8% with HBV, and 9% with HCV. The total infection rate was 15.5%. This is a worrying risk for pathologist and autopsy technicians. |
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spelling | pubmed-57276422018-01-09 Prevalence of HCV, HBV, and HIV Seropositivity among Cadavers Referred to Autopsy Hall of Legal Medicine Bureau of Tehran, Iran Gharehdaghi, Jaber Abedi Khorasgani, Mohammad Hassan Ghadiani, Mohammad Hassan Kazemifar, Amir Mohammad Solhi, Hassan Solhi, Sadra Adv Prev Med Research Article A large number of dead bodies are referred to forensic autopsy halls for medicolegal examination. They can be a source of transmission of infectious diseases through direct contact or autopsy tools. The main aim of this study was to estimate the virus infection rates in the dead bodies. One thousand consecutive dead bodies that had been referred to autopsy hall of Legal Medicine Bureau of Tehran, Iran, during 2016, were included. The blood samples were analyzed in the laboratory for detection of HBs Ag, HBs Ab, HIV Ab, and HCV Ab, after providing informed consent from legal next of kin of the dead bodies. The general characteristics of the dead bodies were also collected by a checklist. Forty-seven cases of HIV seropositivity, 80 cases of HBs Ag seropositivity, and 97 cases for HCV Ab seropositivity were found. Among them, 27 cases of HIV, 40 cases of anti-HBC positive, and 94 cases of RIBA testing positive for HCV were proved through confirmatory tests. In other words, 2.6% of the dead bodies were infected with HIV, 3.8% with HBV, and 9% with HCV. The total infection rate was 15.5%. This is a worrying risk for pathologist and autopsy technicians. Hindawi 2017 2017-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5727642/ /pubmed/29318049 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/2043840 Text en Copyright © 2017 Jaber Gharehdaghi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Gharehdaghi, Jaber Abedi Khorasgani, Mohammad Hassan Ghadiani, Mohammad Hassan Kazemifar, Amir Mohammad Solhi, Hassan Solhi, Sadra Prevalence of HCV, HBV, and HIV Seropositivity among Cadavers Referred to Autopsy Hall of Legal Medicine Bureau of Tehran, Iran |
title | Prevalence of HCV, HBV, and HIV Seropositivity among Cadavers Referred to Autopsy Hall of Legal Medicine Bureau of Tehran, Iran |
title_full | Prevalence of HCV, HBV, and HIV Seropositivity among Cadavers Referred to Autopsy Hall of Legal Medicine Bureau of Tehran, Iran |
title_fullStr | Prevalence of HCV, HBV, and HIV Seropositivity among Cadavers Referred to Autopsy Hall of Legal Medicine Bureau of Tehran, Iran |
title_full_unstemmed | Prevalence of HCV, HBV, and HIV Seropositivity among Cadavers Referred to Autopsy Hall of Legal Medicine Bureau of Tehran, Iran |
title_short | Prevalence of HCV, HBV, and HIV Seropositivity among Cadavers Referred to Autopsy Hall of Legal Medicine Bureau of Tehran, Iran |
title_sort | prevalence of hcv, hbv, and hiv seropositivity among cadavers referred to autopsy hall of legal medicine bureau of tehran, iran |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5727642/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29318049 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/2043840 |
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