Hepatitis virus infection in haemodialysis patients from Moldavia
Autor: | Cristian Apetrei, Adrian Covic, Irina Mititiuc, Carmen Volovat, Luminita Smaranda Iancu, D Scripcaru, Maria Covic |
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Rok vydání: | 1999 |
Předmět: |
Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty medicine.medical_treatment Population medicine.disease_cause Hepatitis B Antigens Renal Dialysis Risk Factors Internal medicine medicine Prevalence Humans education Dialysis Hepatitis Hepatitis B virus Transplantation education.field_of_study business.industry Hepatitis C Hepatitis B Hepatitis C Antibodies Middle Aged Moldova medicine.disease Nephrology Immunology Coinfection Kidney Failure Chronic Female Hemodialysis business |
Zdroj: | Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association. 14(1) |
ISSN: | 0931-0509 |
Popis: | dialysis population of the North Eastern region of Romania, Moldavia. Methods. The presence of HBV antigens was deter- Key words: epidemiology; haemodialysis; hepatitis B mined with an ELISA kit ( Wellcome, Abbot) and and C prevalence; risk factors HCV antibodies with the ELISA-3 Ortho-HCV, third generation test. The following individual data were collected: gender, age, duration of dialysis, rural/urban domicile, actual and previous HBV status, actual HCV Introduction status, known acute, clinically evident hepatitis episodes in the last 3 years, monthly alanine aminotransfer- The epidemiology of hepatitis B and C now seems well ase (ALAT ) and aspartate aminotransferase (ASAT ) established for countries in Western Europe [1‐9]; in levels, complete biochemical hepatic assessment at the Central and Eastern Europe, still |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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