[Hepatitis C in Venezuela. Preliminary report]. / Hepatitis C en Venezuela. Comunicación preliminar.
G E N
; 44(4): 336-42, 1990.
Article
em Es
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-1967086
Five hundred serum samples from volunteers blood donors were investigated in order to determine the presence of anti-HCV antibodies by an enzyme-linked immunoassay recently developed worldwide. Prevalence of true-positive samples was 1.2% (6/500), 2 fold higher than the reported prevalence in most of the industrialized countries. From these 6 sera, one (16.6%) showed simultaneous reactivity for HBV anticore antibody. Three sera (25%) from 12 patients with diagnosis of Non-A Non-B hepatitis were reactive for anti-HCV antibodies while in a group of 32 sera with negative HAV and HBV screening, 4 (12.5%) showed anti-HCV antibodies. Two samples out of 16 sera persistently positive for anticore demonstrated the presence of anti-HCV antibodies. The anti-HCV antibodies were undetectable in two cases of autoimmune chronic hepatitis. Our results indicate that in Venezuela, HCV represents a significant problem of public health coexisting in certain cases with HBV infection.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Hepatite C
Tipo de estudo:
Prevalence_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do sul
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Venezuela
Idioma:
Es
Revista:
G E N
Ano de publicação:
1990
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de publicação:
Venezuela