| clinical course and outcome of a nosocomial outbreak of hepatitis c in a urology ward. | this paper describes a prospective study of the clinical course and outcome of a nosocomial outbreak of hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection in six male urology patients at a hospital in stara zagora, bulgaria. these patients had been previously hospitalised in the urology ward, during which all had received intravenous therapy. approximately three weeks later, all six were admitted to the infectious diseases unit with acute hepatitis, shown to be caused by hcv genotype 1b. the diagnosis was confir ... | 2007 | 17719679 |
| prevalence of hbv and hcv among outpatients in the plovdiv region of bulgaria, 2010-2011. | viral hepatitis, particularly hepatitis b and c, are diseases with worldwide distribution that present a significant public health problem. seroprevalence studies allow assessment of the extent of the disease burden, the identification of populations at risk and the monitoring trends over time. a multi-center seroprevalence study, carried out in bulgaria (covering the five largest cities - sofia, plovdiv, varna, pleven, and stara zagora) in 1999-2000 estimated a crude seroprevalence rate of 3.9% ... | 2015 | 25163778 |