The distribution of HCV in subjects attending hospitals in Duhok City, Iraq
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- 作者：Nawfal Rasheed Hussein<sup>1sup><sup> ; sup><sup>nawfal.hussein@yahoo.comsup> ; Amer Abdullah Balatay<sup>2sup> ; Alpay Turan Sezgin<sup>3sup> ; Rana Saadi Jawad<sup>4sup>
- 关键词：HCV ; Genotype ; Iraq ; Duhok
- 刊名：Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：March 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：7
- 期：3
- 页码：262-264
- 全文大小：281 K
- 卷排序：7
文摘
To investigate the prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) and its genotypes in Duhok City, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.MethodsA cross sectional study was conducted to investigate the prevalence of HCV and its genotype. A total of 2 109 subjects, who attended the hospital for complaints other than hepatitis, were recruited in this study.ResultsFirst, anti-HCV antibody positivity was examined by ELISA. About 5.2% (111/2 109) of our samples were tested positive for anti-HCV antibodies. To confirm the positivity, RT-PCR was performed. Amongst all samples, 2.8% (60/2 109) was positive by RT-PCR. Then, we genotyped all the RT-PCR positive samples, and it was found that 50.0% (30/60) of our samples were typed as HCV genotype 4, 43.3% (26/60) as genotype 1 and 6.7% (4/60) as genotype 3.ConclusionsThe prevalence of HCV was higher than that was reported previously and genotype 4 was the most prevalent. Further population based study is required to investigate the prevalence of HCV.