Hepatitis B virus strains from Rwandan blood donors are genetically similar and form one clade within subgenotype A1
详细信息 查看全文
- 作者：Theogene Twagirumugabe ; Gatare Swaibu ; Timothy David Walker…
- 关键词：HBV prevalence ; HBV DNA ; Pre ; S mutants ; Blood donors ; Sub ; Saharan Africa
- 刊名：BMC Infectious Diseases
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：17
- 期：1
- 全文大小：1473KB
- 刊物主题：Infectious Diseases; Parasitology; Medical Microbiology; Tropical Medicine; Internal Medicine;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2334
- 卷排序：17
文摘
BackgroundRwanda is a central African country with about 12 million inhabitants. The 1994 genocide against the Tutsi destroyed much of the infrastructure, including the health system. Although this has improved significantly, many challenges remain to be addressed. In this study, the prevalence of serological markers of past and ongoing hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and HBV vaccine related immunity was investigated in samples from blood donors from all regions of Rwanda.