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Village-to-village screening for hepatitis B and C using quantitative HBsAg and anti-HCV testing with reflex HCV core antigen tests in the remote communities of a resource-rich setting: a population-based prospective cohort study
OBJECTIVES: Community-based screening for hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) is essential for hepatitis elimination. This study attempted to increase screening accessibility and efficacy by using alternative tools. DESIGN: Population-based prospective cohort study. SETTING: Hepatiti...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8264874/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34233977 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046115 |
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author | Chang, Te-Sheng Chang, Kao-Chi Chen, Wei-Ming Hsu, Nien-Tzu Lee, Chih-Yi Lin, Yu-Chih Huang, Wei-Cheng Chiu, Wen-Nan Hu, Jin-Hung Huang, Tung-Jung Chen, Mei-Yen Lu, Sheng-Nan |
author_facet | Chang, Te-Sheng Chang, Kao-Chi Chen, Wei-Ming Hsu, Nien-Tzu Lee, Chih-Yi Lin, Yu-Chih Huang, Wei-Cheng Chiu, Wen-Nan Hu, Jin-Hung Huang, Tung-Jung Chen, Mei-Yen Lu, Sheng-Nan |
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description | OBJECTIVES: Community-based screening for hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) is essential for hepatitis elimination. This study attempted to increase screening accessibility and efficacy by using alternative tools. DESIGN: Population-based prospective cohort study. SETTING: Hepatitis elimination program at Yunlin County, Taiwan. PARTICIPANTS: All 4552 individuals participated in 60 screening sessions of a community-based HBV and HCV screening project in five rural townships with approximately 95 000 inhabitants in central-western Taiwan. INTERVENTIONS: To increase accessibility, 60 outreach screening sessions were conducted in 41 disseminative sites. Quantitative HBV surface antigen (qHBsAg) and anti-HCV testing with reflex HCV core antigen (HCV Ag) tests were employed as alternative screening tools. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Calculate village-specific prevalence of HBsAg, anti-HCV and HCV Ag and establish patient allocation strategies according to levels of qHBsAg HCV Ag and alanine aminotransferase (ALT). RESULTS: Of 4552 participants, 553, 697 and 290 were positive for HBsAg, anti-HCV and HCV Ag, respectively; 75 of them had both HBsAg and anti-HCV positivity. The average (range) number of participants in each screening session was 98 (31–150). The prevalence rates (range) of HBsAg, anti-HCV and HCV Ag were 12.1% (4.3%–19.4%), 15.3% (2.6%–52.3%) and 6.4% (0%–30.2%), respectively. The HCV Ag positivity rate among anti-HCV-positive participants was 42% (0%–100%). Using cut-off values of >200 IU/mL for qHBsAg, >3 fmol/L for HCV Ag and >40 IU/mL for ALT as criteria for patient referral, we noted an 80.2% reduction in referral burden. Three villages had high anti-HCV prevalences of 52.3%, 53.8% and 63.4% with corresponding viraemic prevalences of 23.2%, 30.1% and 22% and thus constituted newly identified HCV-hyperendemic villages. CONCLUSION: Outreach hepatitis screening increases accessibility for residents in rural communities. Screening HBV and HCV through qHBsAg and HCV Ag tests provides information concerning viral activities, which might be conducive to precise patient allocation in remote communities. |
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spelling | pubmed-82648742021-07-23 Village-to-village screening for hepatitis B and C using quantitative HBsAg and anti-HCV testing with reflex HCV core antigen tests in the remote communities of a resource-rich setting: a population-based prospective cohort study Chang, Te-Sheng Chang, Kao-Chi Chen, Wei-Ming Hsu, Nien-Tzu Lee, Chih-Yi Lin, Yu-Chih Huang, Wei-Cheng Chiu, Wen-Nan Hu, Jin-Hung Huang, Tung-Jung Chen, Mei-Yen Lu, Sheng-Nan BMJ Open Gastroenterology and Hepatology OBJECTIVES: Community-based screening for hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) is essential for hepatitis elimination. This study attempted to increase screening accessibility and efficacy by using alternative tools. DESIGN: Population-based prospective cohort study. SETTING: Hepatitis elimination program at Yunlin County, Taiwan. PARTICIPANTS: All 4552 individuals participated in 60 screening sessions of a community-based HBV and HCV screening project in five rural townships with approximately 95 000 inhabitants in central-western Taiwan. INTERVENTIONS: To increase accessibility, 60 outreach screening sessions were conducted in 41 disseminative sites. Quantitative HBV surface antigen (qHBsAg) and anti-HCV testing with reflex HCV core antigen (HCV Ag) tests were employed as alternative screening tools. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Calculate village-specific prevalence of HBsAg, anti-HCV and HCV Ag and establish patient allocation strategies according to levels of qHBsAg HCV Ag and alanine aminotransferase (ALT). RESULTS: Of 4552 participants, 553, 697 and 290 were positive for HBsAg, anti-HCV and HCV Ag, respectively; 75 of them had both HBsAg and anti-HCV positivity. The average (range) number of participants in each screening session was 98 (31–150). The prevalence rates (range) of HBsAg, anti-HCV and HCV Ag were 12.1% (4.3%–19.4%), 15.3% (2.6%–52.3%) and 6.4% (0%–30.2%), respectively. The HCV Ag positivity rate among anti-HCV-positive participants was 42% (0%–100%). Using cut-off values of >200 IU/mL for qHBsAg, >3 fmol/L for HCV Ag and >40 IU/mL for ALT as criteria for patient referral, we noted an 80.2% reduction in referral burden. Three villages had high anti-HCV prevalences of 52.3%, 53.8% and 63.4% with corresponding viraemic prevalences of 23.2%, 30.1% and 22% and thus constituted newly identified HCV-hyperendemic villages. CONCLUSION: Outreach hepatitis screening increases accessibility for residents in rural communities. Screening HBV and HCV through qHBsAg and HCV Ag tests provides information concerning viral activities, which might be conducive to precise patient allocation in remote communities. BMJ Publishing Group 2021-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8264874/ /pubmed/34233977 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046115 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2021. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Gastroenterology and Hepatology Chang, Te-Sheng Chang, Kao-Chi Chen, Wei-Ming Hsu, Nien-Tzu Lee, Chih-Yi Lin, Yu-Chih Huang, Wei-Cheng Chiu, Wen-Nan Hu, Jin-Hung Huang, Tung-Jung Chen, Mei-Yen Lu, Sheng-Nan Village-to-village screening for hepatitis B and C using quantitative HBsAg and anti-HCV testing with reflex HCV core antigen tests in the remote communities of a resource-rich setting: a population-based prospective cohort study |
title | Village-to-village screening for hepatitis B and C using quantitative HBsAg and anti-HCV testing with reflex HCV core antigen tests in the remote communities of a resource-rich setting: a population-based prospective cohort study |
title_full | Village-to-village screening for hepatitis B and C using quantitative HBsAg and anti-HCV testing with reflex HCV core antigen tests in the remote communities of a resource-rich setting: a population-based prospective cohort study |
title_fullStr | Village-to-village screening for hepatitis B and C using quantitative HBsAg and anti-HCV testing with reflex HCV core antigen tests in the remote communities of a resource-rich setting: a population-based prospective cohort study |
title_full_unstemmed | Village-to-village screening for hepatitis B and C using quantitative HBsAg and anti-HCV testing with reflex HCV core antigen tests in the remote communities of a resource-rich setting: a population-based prospective cohort study |
title_short | Village-to-village screening for hepatitis B and C using quantitative HBsAg and anti-HCV testing with reflex HCV core antigen tests in the remote communities of a resource-rich setting: a population-based prospective cohort study |
title_sort | village-to-village screening for hepatitis b and c using quantitative hbsag and anti-hcv testing with reflex hcv core antigen tests in the remote communities of a resource-rich setting: a population-based prospective cohort study |
topic | Gastroenterology and Hepatology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8264874/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34233977 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046115 |
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