| anti-hepatitis c virus screening at the natal blood transfusion service. | | 1992 | 1329235 |
| hepatitis c virus infection in chronic liver disease in natal. | the aim of this cross-sectional seroprevalence study was to determine the prevalence of antibodies to hepatitis c virus (hcv) (anti-hcv) in patients with cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) and chronic active hepatitis (cah) attending a referral hospital in a hepatitis b virus (hbv)-endemic area in south africa. one hundred and ten patients with suspected cirrhosis, 44 with suspected hcc and 6 with chronic hepatitis were initially included. the diagnoses were confirmed in 77 patients with ... | 1996 | 8685789 |
| the pathogenesis of membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis in kwazulu-natal, south africa is unrelated to hepatitis c virus infection. | idiopathic membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (mpgn) is a well-defined clinicopathological entity with a poor prognosis, with 50% of patients progressing to end stage renal disease (esrd) within 10 years. it was reported in about 36% of adult black patients with nephrotic syndrome in our center previously [seedat et al. 1988]. hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection has been shown to be associated with cryoglobulinemic as well as non-cryoglobulinemic (or idiopathic glomerulonephritis). the aim o ... | 2003 | 12940606 |
| hepatitis c virus seropositivity in a south african cohort of hiv co-infected, arv naïve patients is associated with renal insufficiency and increased mortality. | hiv is known to affect the epidemiology, transmission, pathogenesis and natural history of hcv infection whilst studies on the effects of hcv on hiv have shown conflicting results and are confounded by the influence of intravenous drug use and antiretroviral therapy. this study was conducted in kwazulu-natal province in south africa where hiv is predominantly a sexually transmitted infection. intravenous drug use is rare in this region and the study population was naïve to antiretroviral therapy ... | 2008 | 18649335 |
| anti-hepatitis c antibody screening at the natal blood transfusion service. | | 1993 | 8390102 |
| hepatitis c virus infection in urban and rural natal/kwazulu. | this study was undertaken to estimate the prevalence of hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection in urban and rural blacks in natal/kwazulu. sera from representative community-based samples comprising 176 urban and 441 rural black adults were tested for the presence of anti-hcv. the prevalence of hcv infection was 1.7% (95% confidence interval 0-3.6%) among urban and 0.9% (95% confidence interval 0.1-1.7%) among rural blacks. four (0.9%) of the 466 subjects with evidence of current or past hepatitis b ... | 1993 | 8390100 |