Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005 To the Editor: Hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection rates are very low in industrialized countries. A noticeable fall in the prevalence of HAV antibodies (anti-HAV) has been reported in southern European and Mediterranean countries such as Spain (1) and Greece (2), reflecting improvements in hygiene standards in the last decades.
D'AMELIO, Raffaele +7 more
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Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2001 Worldwide, approximately 170 million people are chronically infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) and another 350 million individuals are chronically infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV) (1,2). Canada is estimated to have 240,000 to 300,000 HCV and 200,000 to 280,000 HBV chronic carriers (3,4).
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2023 Background and aims Refugees are at higher risk for hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C (HCV), but often face unique healthcare barriers to vaccination, testing, and treatment.
Ankeeta Saseetharran +5 more
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Incidence, prevalence, and clinical course of hepatitis C following liver transplantation [PDF]
, 1992 Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the agent responsible for posttransfusion hepatitis. The incidence, timing, and clinical course of HCV positive hepatitis in liver transplant recipients are unknown.
A.Jake Demetris +35 more
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Isolation of a cDNA clone derived from a blood-borne non-A, non-B viral hepatitis genome.
Science, 1989 A random-primed complementary DNA library was constructed from plasma containing the uncharacterized non-A, non-B hepatitis (NANBH) agent and screened with serum from a patient diagnosed with NANBH.
Q. Choo +5 more
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Should patients with abnormal liver function tests in primary care be tested for chronic viral hepatitis: cost minimisation analysis based on a comprehensively tested cohort [PDF]
, 2011 Background Liver function tests (LFTs) are ordered in large numbers in primary care, and the Birmingham and Lambeth Liver Evaluation Testing Strategies (BALLETS) study was set up to assess their usefulness in patients with no pre-existing or self ...
AA Butt +52 more
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Usefulness of automated assays for detecting hepatitis B and C markers in dried blood spot samples
BMC Research Notes, 2019 Objective Dried blood spots (DBSs) can be used as an alternative to serum samples because they are easily collected and can be transported without refrigeration to reference laboratories for diagnosis.
Livia Melo Villar +6 more
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‘It’s been a long haul, a big haul, but we’ve made it’: hepatitis C virus treatment in post-transplant patients with virus recurrence: An interpretative phenomenological analysis [PDF]
, 2018 The lived experience of both interferon-based and new interferon-free treatments in patients with hepatitis C virus remains understudied. To explore their journey through hepatitis C virus treatment, we interviewed seven post-transplant patients with ...
Chouliara, Zoe +4 more
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Development of Java based graphical user interface for Diagnosis of Hepatitis UsingI Mixture of Expert [PDF]
, 2012 Hepatitis is deadly, and the fifth leading cause of death after heart disease, stroke, chest disease and cancer. Worldwide, 1.5 million deaths per year have been estimated. Detection of hepatitis is a big problem for general practitioners.
Ambarish S. Vidyarthi +2 more
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Adaptive Learning Expert System for Diagnosis and Management of Viral Hepatitis [PDF]
International journal of artificial intelligence and applications,
2019, Volume 10, Number 2, 2019 Viral hepatitis is the regularly found health problem throughout the world among other easily transmitted diseases, such as tuberculosis, human immune virus, malaria and so on. Among all hepatitis viruses, the uppermost numbers of deaths are result from the long-lasting hepatitis C infection or long-lasting hepatitis B. In order to develop this system,
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