Prevalence of anti-hepatitis C antibodies and its co-infection with HIV in rural Cameroon

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the prevalence of the co-infection between the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV), and the prevalence of factors associated with HCV transmission in a rural Cameroonian community. RESULTS: The mean age of the 174 participants included in the study w...

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Autores principales: Agbor, Valirie Ndip, Tagny, Claude Tayou, Kenmegne, Jules-Bertrand, Awazi, Bih, Ngansop, Charlotte, Mbanya, Dora, Ndembi, Nicaise
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6042353/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29996927
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3566-4
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Sumario:OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the prevalence of the co-infection between the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV), and the prevalence of factors associated with HCV transmission in a rural Cameroonian community. RESULTS: The mean age of the 174 participants included in the study was 30.3 (standard deviation = 13.26) years (age range 12–77 years). the prevalence of HCV/HIV co-infection was 1.7% [95% confidence interval (CI) 1.1–5.9]. The prevalence of HCV and HIV were 6.3% (95% CI 2.9–10.3) and 6.9 (95% CI 5.2–11.3), respectively. Histories of scarification (62.1%), multiple sex partners (31.0%) and sexually transmitted diseases (66.1%) were the most common risk factors of HCV transmission in this study.

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