| high prevalence of hiv-1 crf01_ae viruses among female commercial sex workers residing in surabaya, indonesia. | human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids) cause serious health problems and have an impact on the indonesian economy. in addition, the rapid epidemic growth of hiv is continuing in indonesia. commercial sex plays a significant role in the spread of hiv; therefore, in order to reveal the current hiv prevalence rate among commercial sex workers (csws), we conducted an epidemiological study on hiv infection among csws residing in surabaya, the capit ... | 2013 | 24367533 |
| prevalence of gb virus c/hepatitis g virus infection among various populations in surabaya, indonesia, and identification of novel groups of sequence variants. | a molecular epidemiological study was performed to investigate the prevalence of gb virus c/hepatitis g virus (gbv-c/hgv) infection among various populations in surabaya, indonesia. the prevalence of gbv-c/hgv rna, determined by reverse transcription-pcr for a portion of the ns3 region of the viral genome, was 2.7% (4 of 150) among randomly collected blood donor sera, which were all negative for both hepatitis b virus surface antigen and antibodies against hepatitis c virus (hcv). on the other h ... | 2000 | 10655364 |