[PDF] Top 20 Seroprevalance, associated risk factors and hepatitis b virusgenotypes in a teaching hospital

... active hepatitis, cirrhosis and primary liver cancer (Bennett, Hepatitis B virus was recognized originally as the cause of serum hepatitis, the most common form of parenterally transmitted ... See full document

... A senior laboratory technologist collected 5 mL of venous blood sample using sterile disposable vacutainer tube left for 30 mins to facilitate clotting, and the clotted blood was centrifuged to separate the serum from ... See full document

... Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted among consecutive 385 preg- nant women attended Antenatal Clinic from May 2010 to October 2011 at the Gondar University Teaching Hospital, Northwest ... See full document

... In this study, 53.2% of HIV patients had a history of multiple sexual partners. Among patients with this exposure, the prevalence of HBsAg was 13.2% which is signi fi cantly higher than those without such exposure (13.2% ... See full document

... Background: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is an important contributor to the burden of liver diseases in adult Nigerians and constitutes a threat to socio-economic development in the ...its risk ... See full document

... Methods: Hospital based cross-sectional study was conducted from November 2013 to January ...potential risk factors were collected using semi-structured ...between risk factors and HBV ... See full document

... emergencies associated with blood loss, ...of hepatitis B infection among blood donors at Tamale Teaching Hospital Blood Bank which will indicate the risk of transfusing infected ... See full document

... greater risk due to their frequent contacts with the blood or secre- tions of the patients (Ganczak et ...of hepatitis B infection can be reduced by general and specific prophylactic measures, ... See full document

... iatrogenic hepatitis C but the epidemic continues in developing countries where such control measures are inadequate or ab- sent ...the risk of trans- mission to their neonate and it takes mothers with ... See full document

... with hepatitis B ...educational hospital, out of 1553 patients, 15 cases (1%) were HBsAg-positive, and in 40 % of infected pregnant women, no known risk factor was identified ...related ... See full document

... of risk factors contribute to the rate of this ...Such risk factors include advance maternal HIV disease, lack of anti-viral prophylaxis in the mother and child, mixing of maternal and infant ... See full document

... Hepatitis B and C are the most threatening disease of the world including ...Khyber Teaching Hospital, during session ...gender, risk factor, socioeconomic status, material status and ... See full document

... was associated with the type of operation, wound classification, volume of blood loss, blood transfusion, American Society of Anesthesiology score before surgery, risk index, duration of surgery, diabetes, ... See full document

... greater risk of blood-borne pathogens such as hepatitis B, C and HIV compared to other ...against hepatitis B in service personnel was ...against hepatitis B and ... See full document

... This study was ethically cleared by the ethics review committee of the School of Biomedical and Laboratory Sciences, University of Gondar and Debre Tabor hospital. Participation was voluntary and informed verbal ... See full document

... The overall sero prevalence of HCV in this study was high; hospitalization, tooth extraction and blood trans- fusion were significantly associated with HCV infec- tion. The prevalence was three times higher among ... See full document

... with hepatitis B infection and previous delivery outside the hospital were not statistically significantly associated with HBV infection in this ...of hepatitis B infection among ... See full document

... HBV positive HCWs (one male, 52 years and one female, 45 years) in the present study were ward attenders by profession and were handling hospital waste since twenty years. They were not tested for HBV/ HCV ... See full document

... The hepatitis B virus is a serious public health problem, with approximately 257 million people living with the infection 1 ...are associated with the risk of infection by hepatitis ... See full document

... In Ethiopia, universal vaccination of children against HBV in the form of pentavalent vaccine was introduced in 2007 [19]. The pentavalent vaccine contains HBV vaccine along with Diphteria, pertusis, tetanus, and Hae- ... See full document