Prevalence of hepatitis B virus and HIV infections among pregnant women visiting healthcare institutions in Ebonyi State, Nigeria
| Autor: | E.N. Ugbo, I.O. Ugadu, O D Okata-Nwali, E Ayomoh, A.A. Emioye, A C Nwuzo, I B Moses, A M Adiat, J N Agbom, T O Ariom |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0106 biological sciences
HBsAg medicine.medical_specialty Population Prevalence General Physics and Astronomy medicine.disease_cause 01 natural sciences General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Health care medicine education Hepatitis B virus Rapid diagnostic test education.field_of_study business.industry Obstetrics Public health General Engineering virus diseases General Medicine Hepatitis B medicine.disease General Agricultural and Biological Sciences business 010606 plant biology & botany |
| Zdroj: | Scientific Research and Essays. 15:18-25 |
| ISSN: | 1992-2248 |
| DOI: | 10.5897/sre2019.6646 |
| Popis: | This study aims to determine the prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and HIV infections among pregnant women visiting Healthcare Institutions within Ebonyi State, Nigeria. Blood samples were collected from 100 pregnant women who visited Rural Improvement Missionary Hospital (RIMH) and General Hospital (GHE) within Ebonyi State. The presence of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) in serum was determined using Antec strips (Antec Diagnostics UK) while commercially available Enzyme linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) based rapid diagnostic test kit (Biotech diagnostic, USA) was used to assay for HIV. Sixteen 16 (11.8%) of the pregnant women examined were sero-positive for HBV, 15(10%) were positive for HIV and 4% were positive for co-infection of HBV and HIV. Occupation was significantly associated with the prevalence of the hepatitis B co-infection in the population examined as 8.8% of housewives and 5.5% of business women had co-infection at p |
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