| seroprevalences of hepatitis b and c among health care workers in turkey. | we determined the seroprevalence of hepatitis b virus (hbv) and hepatitis c virus (hcv) among health care workers (hcws) at gülhane military medical academy, haydarpasa training hospital in istanbul, turkey. between april 1998 and september 2000, 702 hcws were included in the study. the blood samples were tested for hepatitis b surface antigen (hbsag), hepatitis b surface antibody (anti-hbs) and hcv antibody (anti-hcv) using third-generation tests, with confirmation by reverse transcriptase-poly ... | 2003 | 12614472 |
| [analysis of the results of neqas international external quality assessment programme for hepatitis b and c virus nucleic acid tests]. | external quality assessment (eqa) has been playing an increasingly important role in the implementation of nucleic acid amplification techniques (pcr) for clinical diagnosis. in this study, the results of hbv-dna quantification and hcv-rna detection tests evaluated by united kingdom national external quality assessment scheme for microbiology (neqas) were analysed and the performance of our laboratory was evaluated. between april 2006-january 2008, in four different distribution panels including ... | 2009 | 19334386 |
| prevalence of antibodies to hepatitis c virus in blood donors and risk groups in istanbul, turkey. | | 1991 | 1650697 |
| the epidemiology of hepatitis c in turkey. | hepatitis c virus (hcv) and hepatitis e virus (hev) are the principal causes of non-a, non-b hepatitis worldwide, and in turkey one-third of the cases of acute hepatitis are non-a, non-b. to explore the epidemiology of hcv in turkey (including the association of hcv with hev), a seroprevalence study of hcv was conducted. sera from residents from five distinct regions of the country were tested for antibodies to hcv (anti-hcv) and hev (anti-hev). anti-hcv was detected in 21 (1.5%) of 1,374 person ... | 1994 | 7698839 |