| impact of hepatitis c infection on renal transplant patients: a single-center experience in libya. | the objective of this study was to assess the effect of hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection on graft and patient survival in a cohort of libyan renal transplant recipients. medical records of 241 renal transplant (rt) patients who have been followed-up at the benghazi nephrology center up to february 2010 were reviewed. based on the presence or absence of anti-hcv antibodies and hcv-rna in the serum, patients were divided into two groups: hcv-positives and hcv-negatives. anti-hcv antibodies were d ... | 2014 | 25394459 |
| [demographic factors influencing hepatitis b and c infection in benghazi, libyan arab jamahiriya]. | we studied the epidemiology of hepatitis b and c infection among a sample of patients referred to the department of the infectious and endemic diseases at al jamahiriya hospital in benghazi. of a total 3250 patients, 40% were randomly selected. of these, 51.2% were infected with hepatitis b virus, 46.9% with hepatitis c virus and 1.9% with hepatitis b and c. younger patients and single patients were more prone to hepatitis b infection, while older patients, married patients and travellers were m ... | 2007 | 17546910 |
| molecular epidemiology: hiv-1 and hcv sequences from libyan outbreak. | in 1998, outbreaks of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (hiv-1) and hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection were reported in children attending al-fateh hospital in benghazi, libya. here we use molecular phylogenetic techniques to analyse new virus sequences from these outbreaks. we find that the hiv-1 and hcv strains were already circulating and prevalent in this hospital and its environs before the arrival in march 1998 of the foreign medical staff (five bulgarian nurses and a palestinian doctor) ... | 2006 | 17171825 |