HEPATITIS-C VIRUS INFECTION
| Autor: | Abdul Majeed Akhtar, Sadia Majeed, Hasnain Javed, Shamsa Kanwal, Sufia Majeed |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | The Professional Medical Journal. 22:1273-1277 |
| ISSN: | 2071-7733 1024-8919 |
| DOI: | 10.29309/tpmj/2015.22.10.979 |
| Popis: | Objectives: Nursing staff is at potential danger of getting HCV infection. Objectiveof present study is to determine the prevalence and associated risk factors of hepatitis C amongnurses in Lahore, Pakistan. It also aimed to estimate the HCV genotypes and find out anyrelationship between their working area and the incidence of HCV infection. Setting: Variouspublic and private hospitals of Lahore. Period: January 2013 to December 2013. Subjectsand Method: This study comprised 186 Nurses. All the samples were processed for Anti-HCVantibody detection through ELISA by using third generation ELISA Kit. Genotyping was alsoperformed on all positive samples. In this study the data were analyzed using SPSS version 16.A P-value < 0.05 was considered to be significant. Results: A total of 186 nurses were enrolledand screened for Anti HCV in the study. The mean age of reactive and non reactive nurses was22.33±1.15 and 23.66±1.97 years, respectively. Working experience in surgical wards, habitsfor going to beauty salon as well as the purpose for which nurses visited beauty salon wassignificantly associated with HCV status. i.e. p-value |
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