| Literature DB >> 12035349 |
A C Phukan1, S K Sharma, H K Das, J Mahanta.
Abstract
Prevalence of anti-HCV among the people at risk and general population were reported across the globe. We investigated HCV activity among the members of "Lisu" community settled in a remote and isolated area of Changlang District, Arunachal Pradesh during 1999-2000. The families were scattered with 380 households. Blood samples were collected from 76 (35 males and 45 females) apparently healthy individuals from randomly selected 10% families. Sera were processed for detection for antibody to HCV by using 3rd generation ELISA kit. All the persons were within the age of 18-98 years and 75% of them were uneducated and 92% were cultivators. The prevalence of anti-HCV was found to be very high (7.89%). Since the HCV activity is high in an isolated community, transmission dynamics study will be interesting for this epidemiologically important viral disease.Entities:
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Year: 2001 PMID： 12035349
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Indian J Pathol Microbiol ISSN： 0377-4929 Impact factor: 0.740