| risk factors and immune response to hepatitis e viral infection among acute hepatitis patients in assiut, egypt. | hepatitis e virus (hev) infection is a common cause of acute viral hepatitis (avh) in egypt. we aimed to identify risk factors of hev among acute hepatitis cases, measure hev specific immune response to differentiate between symptomatic and asymptomatic infections. the study included symptomatic acute hepatitis (ah) patients (n = 235) and asymptomatic contacts (n = 200) to hev cases. they completed a lifestyle questionnaire, screened for common hepatotropic viruses. blood and serum samples were ... | 2010 | 22053611 |
| hepatitis c virus infection among paediatric patients attending university of assiut hospital, egypt. | few studies have evaluated the epidemiology and risk factors of hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection in children in egypt. this study of 465 children attending assiut university hospital measured the rates of anti-hcv positivity by 3rd-generation elisa test and of hcv-rna positivity by pcr, with analysis of some relevant risk factors. the rate of hcv-rna positivity among elisa-positive cases (n = 121) was 72.2% overall: 100% in the subgroup with hepatitis, 70.8% in those with a history of multiple ... | 2010 | 20795415 |
| pattern of hepatitis virus infection among pregnant women and their newborns at the women's health center of assiut university, upper egypt. | to determine the prevalence, risk factors, and rate of vertical transmission of hbv and/or hcv infection among pregnant women in upper egypt, and assess the preventive efficacy of administering hepatitis b immunoglobulin and vaccine to newborns on their carrier status at 8 months. | 2010 | 20708181 |