| high incidence of hepatitis b infection after treatment for paediatric cancer at a teaching hospital in baghdad. | this study estimated the incidence of viral hepatitis in children treated for cancer, to identify variables that could affect this incidence and to assess the role of hepatitis b virus (hbv) vaccination in preventing infection. between september 2007 and june 2008, 256 children in the haemato-oncology unit at the children's welfare teaching hospital, baghdad, were studied prospectively. demographic and clinical data and vaccination history were recorded. patients were tested for hbv at the time ... | 2013 | 23516822 |
| frequency of blood-borne viral infections among leukemic patients in central iraq. | to determine the prevalence of hepatitis b virus (hbv), hepatitis c virus (hcv), cytomegalovirus (cmv), epstein-barr virus (ebv), and human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) and other epidemiological criteria among leukemic patients to establish basic knowledge for future leukemic patients care. | 2011 | 21212918 |
| acute viral hepatitis: an aetiological study of 253 patients. | two hundred and fifty-three cases of acute viral hepatitis admitted to ibn al-khateeb infectious disease hospital, baghdad, were studied prospectively regarding the viral aetiological agent. the most common cause was infection with one of the non-a, non-b viruses (51%). the second most common cause was infection with the hepatitis b virus (32%); two of these patients had hepatitis delta-co-infection. hepatitis a virus was responsible for 15% of the cases, and hepatitis delta-virus superinfection ... | 1989 | 2518790 |