Hepatitis C virus infection in a community in the Nile Delta: Risk factors for seropositivity

• Published in: Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) Vol. 33; no. 1; pp. 248 - 253
• Main Authors: Habib, Mostafa, Mohamed, Mostafa K., Abdel-Aziz, Fatma, Magder, Laurence S., Abdel-Hamid, Mohamed, Gamil, Foda, Madkour, Salah, Mikhail, Nabiel N., Anwar, Wagida, Strickland, G.Thomas, Fix, Alan D., Sallam, Ismail
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia, PA Elsevier Inc 2001; W.B. Saunders; Wiley
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Biological and medical sciences; Child; Child, Preschool; Community Medicine; Egypt; Female; Hepatitis C - diagnosis; Hepatitis C - epidemiology; Hepatitis C - etiology; Hepatitis C - immunology; Hepatitis C Antibodies - analysis; Human viral diseases; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Infectious diseases; Male; Medical sciences; Multivariate Analysis; Prevalence; Risk Factors; Serologic Tests; Tropical medicine; Viral diseases; Viral hepatitis; Africa; Egypt; Infection; Human; Seropositivity; Transfusion; Viral disease; Surgery; Risk factor; Digestive diseases; Hepatic disease; Epidemiology; Age; Viral hepatitis C

The purpose of this study was to identify risk factors for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in a rural village in the Nile Delta with a high prevalence of antibodies to HCV (anti-HCV). One half of the village households were systematically selected, tested for anti-HCV, and interviewed: 973 of 3,99...