Hepatitis C virus infection is now recognized as a common and serious complication of injection drug use and will be encountered frequently in methadone maintenance patients. Approximately 1.8% of the United States population, or 3.9 million persons, are infected with hepatitis C virus. A majority of acute hepatitis C virus infections are associated with injection drug use, and 64-88% of inject...

conclusions in conclusion, the prevalence of hbv infection was low in the south of iran, but genotype d represented the major hbv genotype in this population. among the variables, age, duration of hd, history of blood transfusion, and using shared hd devices influenced the prevalence of hbv among hd patients. results both kinds of assay determined that nine (5.88%) patients were hbv positive (h...

El Virus de Hepatitis C (VHC) puede persistir en el 80% las personas infectadas, que conduce a desarrollar hepatitis crónica, cirrosis y hepatocarcinoma. Sin embargo, 10 % los infectados pueden erradicar espontáneamente virus mediante la respuesta viral sostenida (RVS). Durante muchos años, tratamiento contra VHC estaba basado combinación interferón pegilado (IFN-PEG) ribavirina (RIB), con una ...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Chronic hepatitis C virus infection often has autoimmune clinical and analytic features. This review analyzes recent data on the close association of chronic hepatitis C virus infection with autoimmune and lymphoproliferative processes. RECENT FINDINGS Hepatitis C virus infection has been associated with both organ-specific (thyroiditis, diabetes) and systemic autoimmune dis...

conclusions these findings of the present study indicate that the recombinant coree1e2 glycoprotein is effective in inducing neutralizing antibodies, and is an influential hcv vaccine candidate. results in our study, the virus-like particle of rcoree1e2 with 70 nm size, was shown by electron microscopy and proved the self-assembly in vitro in a yeast expression system. materials and methods by ...

Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP) is caused by production of platelet autoantibody. Then ITP can be various viral infections, including Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Hepatitis C (HCV), cytomegalovirus, herpes simplex virus, Zika virus and others [1].

BACKGROUND The hepatitis B, hepatitis C, human immunodeficiency viruses and Treponema pallidum are important causes of infectious diseases concern to public health. METHODS Between 2010 and 2014, we used an automated chemiluminescence microparticle immunoassay to detect the hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and human immunodeficiency viruses as well as Treponema pallidum (the rapid plasma regain test...

OBJECTIVES Hepatitis C virus infection has a 10.5% frequency in liver transplant posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorders. Studies have suggested that hepatitis C virus infection plays a role in developing posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorders. Pooling data of posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorders developing in liver recipients from the literature, we analyzed and compared cha...

 ABSTRACT Background: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in patients who lack detectable hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) is called occult hepatitis B infection. Such infections have been frequently identified in patients with chronic hepatitis Cliver disease, but their prevalence is not known. Methods: 207 patients with chronic hepatitis C who were HCV -RNA and antiHCV positive were stu...