Comparison of the Prevalence of Hepatitis A and E Virus Infections among Patients infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 in Japan

Autor:	Akira Yoshikawa, Hiroaki Okamoto, Hideaki Mizoguchi, Fumio Tsuda, Yuko Gotanda, G Masuda, Takao Shibayama, Atsushi Ajisawa
Rok vydání:	2005
Předmět:	Hepatology biology business.industry viruses Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) virus diseases Hepatitis A medicine.disease medicine.disease_cause Virology digestive system diseases Virus Hepatitis a virus Hepatitis E virus Immunology medicine biology.protein Antibody business
Zdroj:	Kanzo. 46:663-664
ISSN:	1881-3593 0451-4203
DOI:	10.2957/kanzo.46.663
Popis:	We examined the prevalence of hepatitis A virus (HAV) and hepatitis E virus (HEV) infections among 280 Japanese patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV) and among 1,000 apparently healthy blood donors as a control. The prevalence of antibody to HAV was significantly higher among the HIV-infected patients than among the healthy donors (25.4% vs. 19.0%, P=0.025). When restricted to subjects aged
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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