BACKGROUND Since the introduction of Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy and the dramatic improvement in the prognosis of individuals with Human Immunodeficiency Virus, liver disease due to chronic viral hepatitis has become as important cause of morbidity and mortality in co-infected individuals. The objective of the study was to determine the Sero-prevalence of Hepatitis B Virus, Hepatitis ...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Prisons in Egypt do not currently screen for blood-borne viruses, and there are no statistics concerning the prevalence of hepatitis C virus, hepatitis B virus or human immunodeficiency virus among prisoners. This study was performed to detect the prevalence of antibodies against hepatitis C, hepatitis B core and human immunodeficiency virus among Egyptian prisoners. METHOD...

The western region of the Brazilian Amazon Basin has long been shown to be a highly endemic area for hepatitis B and hepatitis D viruses. Data concerning the prevalence of hepatitis C and E viruses in this region are still scarce. In this study we investigated the presence of hepatitis A, B, C, D and E viruses infection in communities that live along the Purus and Acre rivers in the states of A...

background torque teno virus (ttv) belongs to the circoviridae family and was separated from japanese patients with elevated levels of serum alanine transferase for the first time. following this, extensive studies have been carried out around the world. objectives the present study was designed to investigate and determine the frequency of ttv genotypes in patients with chronic hepatitis b and...

PURPOSE To investigate the association between psoriasis and viral hepatitis. METHODS Psoriasis patients were compared to controls regarding the prevalence of viral hepatitis in a case-control study using logistic multivariate models. The study was performed utilizing the medical database of Clalit Health Services. RESULTS The study included 12,502 psoriasis patients >20 years old and 24,28...

OBJECTIVE Chronic infection of hepatitis B and hepatitis C are considered as the most important infectious diseases, which lead to drastic consequences such as liver dysfunction. Depression is a psychiatric disorder which is concomitantly present in these patients, and decreases the patients' quality of life. It may lead to suicide, homicide or intentional transmission of infectious to others. ...

Diverse Indian population provides an excellent opportunity to study the prevalence and feature of hepatitis virus for understanding viral evaluation and viral pathogenesis. India is in intermediate zone of pathogenesis of hepatitis B (2-5%), and India is having around 40 million hepatitis B virus (HBV) carriers. A wide variation in prevalence of hepatitis B is observed from region to region an...

Background: There are little data on the prevalence of hepatitis B and hepatitis C viruses in pregnant women in Meerut. Objectives: This study was designed to determine the prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among pregnant women. Material and Methods: Blood samples of 5042 pregnant women were collected. Result and Discussion: overall prevalence, 162(3.21...

background: hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection is one of the major blood-borne infections worldwide. hcv carriers may develop chronic hepatitis leading to liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc). there is no overall estimate of the infection prevalence in the northeast of iran. we have performed this research in order to determine accurately the prevalence and risk factors of hcv infe...