1. Prevalence of HCV among the high risk groups in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
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Iqbal Munir, Aqib Iqbal, Lubna Siddique, Safira Attache, Ijaz Ali, Najib U Khan, Sana Ullah Khan, Mehwish S Aslam, Farzana Rashid, Latifur Rehman, and Zahoor A. Swati
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Adult ,Male ,Adolescent ,Hepacivirus ,Thalassemia ,Hepatitis C virus ,medicine.disease_cause ,Polymerase Chain Reaction ,lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases ,Young Adult ,Risk groups ,Virology ,medicine ,Prevalence ,Humans ,Pakistan ,lcsh:RC109-216 ,Young adult ,Child ,Aged ,Aged, 80 and over ,Immunoassay ,Cross Infection ,biology ,business.industry ,Research ,Hepatitis C ,Hepatitis C Antibodies ,Middle Aged ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,Infectious Diseases ,Infectious disease (medical specialty) ,RNA, Viral ,Female ,business ,Nested polymerase chain reaction - Abstract
Hepatitis C is an infectious disease, caused by blood borne pathogen; the Hepatitis C Virus. In this study we analyzed blood samples collected from various risk groups for the prevalence of anti-HCV and active HCV infection with the help of Immunochromtographic tests and nested PCR. The prevalence of active HCV infection among the high risk groups was 15.57% (26/167). The prevalence of HCV in individual risk groups was 15%, 28%, 8%, 14.28% and 14.28% in the case of thalassemics, dialysis, major surgery group, dental surgery group and injection drug users respectively. Our analysis reveals the fact that health care facilities in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan are contributing a great deal towards the spread of HCV infection.
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