| hepatitis a and b virus infections in children in kuwait. | in a 1-year prospective study of 1788 cases of acute viral hepatitis, 26 (1.5%) presented with evidence of simultaneous hepatitis a (hav) and hepatitis b (hbv) virus infection. twenty-three of 26 (88.5%) of these cases had serological evidence of a recent hav infection in a chronic hbv carrier. the remaining 3 (11.5%) showed serological evidence of a recent concomitant hav/hbv infection. twenty-four of the 26 (92.3%) patients with simultaneous infection were children with a mean age of 4.6 years ... | 1986 | 2425722 |
| acute non-a, non-b hepatitis in kuwait. | in a prospective study of acute hepatitis in kuwait covering the period february 1983 to january 1984, a total of 1781 cases were diagnosed as having an acute viral hepatitis. 1,384 (77.7%) were found to be due to hepatitis a virus (hav), 206 (11.5%) hepatitis b virus (hbv), 8 (0.4%) coinfection with hbv and delta virus (hdv), 8 (0.4%) superinfection of hdv on chronic hbsag carriers and 157 (9%) non-a, non-b virus (nanb). 13 cases of cmv and 5 of ebv infections were also diagnosed. nanb viral he ... | 1987 | 3126547 |
| hepatitis delta virus infection in acute hepatitis in kuwait. | over a period of 1 year, 254 patients presenting with acute hepatitis at the infectious disease hospital, kuwait were positive for hepatitis b surface antigen (hbsag). of these, 23 (9%) patients were found to have antibodies to hepatitis d virus (hdv) (anti-hdv). eight of these anti-hdv positive patients were shown to have a coinfection with acute hepatitis b and 8 had a superinfection of hdv on a chronic hbsag infection. the remaining 7 had had a previous hdv infection and were also chronic car ... | 1988 | 3363303 |
| hepatitis b virus (hbv) markers among patients with chronic liver disease in kuwait. | the prevalence of hepatitis b surface antigen (hbsag), antibody to the hepatitis b core (anti-hbc) and to surface antigen (anti-hbs), was investigated, using sensitive radioimmunoassay (ria) systems, among patients with different clinical entities of chronic liver disease in kuwait, and compared to a control blood donor population. 81% of patients and 44% of the controls had at lease one hbv marker. 24% of patients, but non of the controls had both hbsag and a high titre of anti-hbc in the absen ... | 1982 | 7112657 |
| viral hepatitis and pregnancy in kuwait. | the frequency and severity of viral hepatitis among pregnant and non-pregnant women in kuwait was studied from 1980 to 1984. 542 female hepatitis patients were investigated, of whom 52 (9.6%) were pregnant. 35 of the 52 (67.3%) cases of viral hepatitis in pregnancy were due to hepatitis b virus while 11 of 52 (21.2%) and 6 of 52 (11.5%) had acute hepatitis non-a, non-b (nanb) and hepatitis a virus infections, respectively. the frequency and severity of viral hepatitis among the pregnant women wa ... | 1987 | 3686634 |
| hepatitis b virus perinatal transmission among arab women. | one thousand five hundred and fifty-four arab women were screened at delivery for the presence of hepatitis b virus (hbv) antigenaemia in their sera. forty-five or 2.9% were found to be positive. only three of 41 (7.3%) of these hepatitis b surface antigen-positive (hbsag) mothers were found to be positive for the presence of hepatitis b e antigen (hbeag), 27 (65.8%) had anti-hbe and the remaining 11 (26.8%) had neither hbeag nor its corresponding antibody. these results, therefore, predicted a ... | 1986 | 2435228 |
| fulminant viral hepatitis in kuwait. | this study describes the aetiology and clinical course of fulminant viral hepatitis in 34 patients. sixteen of 34 (47%) patients presented with serological evidence that indicated that hepatitis b virus (hbv) was the cause of fulminant hepatitis, while in 13 of 34 (38%) non-a, non-b (nanb) virus was implicated as the cause. further, in three cases (9%) and two cases (6%) the patients' serological data indicated that hepatitis a (hav) and the delta agent superinfection, respectively, were the cau ... | 1988 | 3151428 |
| occupational injuries prone to infectious risks amongst healthcare personnel in kuwait: a retrospective study. | the study aimed at determining the prevalence of incident occupational exposure to blood and other potentially infectious materials (opim) among healthcare personnel (hcp) during 2010 and at evaluating the factors associated with these incidents. | 2015 | 25531906 |
| prevalence of viral markers among first-time arab blood donors in kuwait. | the aim of this study was to assess the effect of blood donation modes on the prevalence of viral markers among arab first-time blood donors in kuwait. | 2005 | 16371052 |
| significance of atypical pathogens among community-acquired pneumonia adult patients admitted to hospital in kuwait. | the aim of this study is to determine the microbial etiology and severity of community-acquired pneumonia (cap) in kuwait. | 2005 | 15961932 |