Background: the transportation industry is primarily a male-dominated industry, of which drivers are at risk contracting HIV. They spend lot time away from their wives or partners due to nature occupation. Identifying factors HIV among both long distance and intra-city commercial could provide strategies for effective prevention control. Aim: this study assessed Sero-prevalence infection in Kan...

BACKGROUND Clinicians working in a women's prison in British Columbia observed hepatitis C sero-conversion among inmates, prompting this study to determine: the characteristics of women who do and do not report illicit drug use in prison; patterns of drug use inside prison; factors associated with illicit drug use that might contribute to bloodborne transmission inside prison. METHODS A cross...

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) prevalence is highest in Sub-Saharan Africa including Ethiopia. HBV genotypes have distinct geographic distributions and play a role in course of infection and treatment management. However, in Ethiopia there is paucity of information about distribution of HBV genotypes. This study was done to determine genotype, mutation and sero-virological profiles of HBV isolates in ...

in vitro. This hemolytic antiserum if it be lleated to 56?C. for half an hour will lose its power of dissolving the erythrocytes, because its complement has been destroyed by the heat; it will, however, regain its power if to it be added some fresh guinea-pig8' serum. The complement of the guinea-pigs' serum supplies the want caused by the heating piocess?reactivates the inactivated antiserum, ...

During a sero-survey for lymphotropic retroviruses, seven screening tests were performed for the three lymphotropic retroviruses of relevance in Djibouti, East Africa (HIV-1, HIV-2 and HTLV-1). Of the 82 subjects whose sera reacted in at least one retroviral screening assay, about one third could be followed, and their sera were re-examined after a 5-month interval, and then after an additional...