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
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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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author Agbor, Valirie Ndip
Tagny, Claude Tayou
Kenmegne, Jules-Bertrand
Awazi, Bih
Ngansop, Charlotte
Mbanya, Dora
Ndembi, Nicaise
author_facet Agbor, Valirie Ndip
Tagny, Claude Tayou
Kenmegne, Jules-Bertrand
Awazi, Bih
Ngansop, Charlotte
Mbanya, Dora
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description 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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spelling pubmed-60423532018-07-13 Prevalence of anti-hepatitis C antibodies and its co-infection with HIV in rural Cameroon Agbor, Valirie Ndip Tagny, Claude Tayou Kenmegne, Jules-Bertrand Awazi, Bih Ngansop, Charlotte Mbanya, Dora Ndembi, Nicaise BMC Res Notes Research Note 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. BioMed Central 2018-07-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6042353/ /pubmed/29996927 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3566-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Agbor, Valirie Ndip
Tagny, Claude Tayou
Kenmegne, Jules-Bertrand
Awazi, Bih
Ngansop, Charlotte
Mbanya, Dora
Ndembi, Nicaise
Prevalence of anti-hepatitis C antibodies and its co-infection with HIV in rural Cameroon
title Prevalence of anti-hepatitis C antibodies and its co-infection with HIV in rural Cameroon
title_full Prevalence of anti-hepatitis C antibodies and its co-infection with HIV in rural Cameroon
title_fullStr Prevalence of anti-hepatitis C antibodies and its co-infection with HIV in rural Cameroon
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence of anti-hepatitis C antibodies and its co-infection with HIV in rural Cameroon
title_short Prevalence of anti-hepatitis C antibodies and its co-infection with HIV in rural Cameroon
title_sort prevalence of anti-hepatitis c antibodies and its co-infection with hiv in rural cameroon
topic Research Note
url 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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