| hepatitis c virus infection in the general population: a community-based study in west bengal, india. | limited information is available about the prevalence and genotype distribution of hepatitis c virus (hcv) in the general population of india. a community-based epidemiologic study was carried out in a district in west bengal, india. by a 1:3 sampling method, 3,579 individuals were preselected from 10,737 inhabitants of 9 villages of the district, of whom 2,973 (83.1%) agreed to participate. twenty-six subjects (0.87%) were hcv antibody positive. the prevalence increased from 0.31% in subjects < ... | 2003 | 12668973 |
| molecular epidemiology of hcv infection among acute and chronic liver disease patients in kolkata, india. | in recent years, hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection is gaining importance in asian countries. recent studies conducted in different parts of the world revealed that there is a genotypic correlation of disease severity and treatment outcome. | 2005 | 15572005 |
| epidemic of hiv coupled with hepatitis c virus among injecting drug users of himalayan west bengal, eastern india, bordering nepal, bhutan, and bangladesh. | a study was conducted in june 2004 to find out the epidemiology of hiv infection among injecting drug users (idus) of darjeeling district of west bengal, eastern india. the district headquarter, darjeeling town, also known as "queen of hills," is a beautiful spot situated in himalayan west bengal that attracts a large number of tourists each year from all over the world. another unique feature of the district is that it has international boundaries with three countries, nepal, bhutan, and bangla ... | 2006 | 16467010 |
| significant increase in hbv, hcv, hiv and syphilis infections among blood donors in west bengal, eastern india 2004-2005: exploratory screening reveals high frequency of occult hbv infection. | to evaluate the prevalence of markers of hepatitis b virus (hbv) and hepatitis c virus (hcv) and human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) among blood donors in kolkata, eastern india for two consecutive years and to conduct a pilot study to explore the presence of hbv dna among hepatitis b surface antigen (hbsag) negative but anti-hbc positive blood donors. | 2007 | 17659734 |
| pattern of hepatitis c virus genotypes in hiv infected patients in rims, hospital, imphal, manipur. | the present study was carried out to find the pattern of genotype distribution of hepatitis c virus. twenty-three hepatitis c virus positive serum samples in various age-groups of both sexes attending, microbiology department, rims during the period from september 2002 to december 2004 were studied for hepatitis c genotype. these hcv positive serum samples were sent to national institute of cholera and enteric diseases, kolkata. the serum samples were tested for hcv-rna by qualitative rt-pcr tes ... | 2007 | 18338712 |
| nonobese population in a developing country has a high prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver and significant liver disease. | there is a paucity of community-based epidemiological data on nonalcoholic fatty liver (nafl) among nonaffluent populations in developing countries. available studies are radiological and/or biochemical and lack histological assessment, limiting their strength. we conducted a prospective epidemiological study comprising a 1:3 subsample of all adult (>18 years) inhabitants of a rural administrative unit of west bengal, india. subjects positive for hepatitis b virus and/or hepatitis c virus infect ... | 2010 | 20222092 |
| recent pattern of co-infection amongst hiv seropositive individuals in tertiary care hospital, kolkata. | opportunistic infections (ois) and co-infections are the major cause of deaths amongst hiv infected individuals and this mostly depends upon the risk factors, type of exposure and geographic region. the commonest types of infections reported are tuberculosis, chronic diarrhoea, oral candidiasis, herpes simplex virus-2, cytomegalovirus, hepatitis b virus and hepatitis c virus. due to the scarcity of ois data available from this region, we had designed a study to determine the frequency of differe ... | 2011 | 21396133 |
| prevalence of hepatitis e virus infection in west bengal, india: a hospital-based study. | india is an endemic zone for hepatitis e virus (hev), which is associated with both epidemic and sporadic infections. in west bengal, only two hepatitis e outbreaks have been studied to date. however, sporadic cases of hev infection also occur during inter-epidemic periods. the aim of this hospital-based study was to detect the prevalence of hev infection in patients with acute sporadic hepatitis in west bengal, india. blood samples and clinical information were collected from 285 patients of bo ... | 2014 | 24821066 |