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Seroprevalence of HCV among Cairo University students in Egypt
Author(s) -
Esmat Gamal,
Raziky Maissa El,
Nabeel Mohammed M.,
Maher Rabab,
Zakaria Zeinab
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of medical virology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 1096-9071
pISSN - 0146-6615
DOI - 10.1002/jmv.24469
Subject(s) - seroprevalence , hepatitis c virus , medicine , significant difference , virology , prevalence , antibody , hepatitis c , serology , epidemiology , immunology , virus
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is highly prevalent in Egypt. This work aimed at determining the seroprevalence of HCV among Cairo University students. The present study included 3,000 students from Cairo University, Egypt. Blood sample was obtained from each participant to be tested for HCV seromarker. HCV RNA detection by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was carried out for those with positive anti‐HCV. Overall prevalence rate of HCV antibody (anti‐HCV) was 4.6%. It showed that the prevalence was relatively higher among females (86/1660; 5.2%) while males (51/1340; 3.8%) with no significant difference. PCR for HCV RNA was detected in 31.4% of the HCV antibody positive subjects (43/137). Which showed statistical significant difference between males (29/51) and females (14/86) at P = 0.001. Despite the prevalence rate reported in the present study was similar to anti‐HCV prevalence among persons in the same age group, confirmed that HCV infection is detected among Cairo University students. J. Med. Virol. 88:1384–1387, 2016 . © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.