| Literature DB >> 17607776 |
H M Y Mudawi1, H M Smith, I A Fletcher, S S Fedail.
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A cross-sectional hospital based study was carried out at the National Center for Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease in Khartoum, Sudan to determine the prevalence, common genotypes and risk factors for hepatitis C virus infection in Sudanese patients with hepatosplenic schistosomiasis. A total of 176 patients with hepatosplenic schistosomiasis were tested for HCV antibodies and 4.5% of the samples were reactive. PCR was positive in 2.3% of cases and genotype 4 was the major genotype isolated with subtypes 4, 4e, and 4c/4d. It is concluded that HCV was of low seroprevalence in the study population and that parenteral antischistosomal therapy was not a significant risk factor in transmission of infection in the Sudan.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID： 17607776 DOI： 10.1002/jmv.20865
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Med Virol ISSN： 0146-6615 Impact factor: 2.327