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Chronic HCV - infection in the Kirov region: Dynamics of indices of disease in adults in 1995-2010
Author(s) -
С. В. Барамзина
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
epidemiology and infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2411-3026
pISSN - 1560-9529
DOI - 10.17816/eid40712
Subject(s) - chronic hepatitis , hepatitis c virus , dominance (genetics) , epidemiology , incidence (geometry) , genotyping , chronic infection , medicine , immunology , virology , disease , hepatitis c , virus , genotype , biology , immune system , genetics , gene , physics , optics
In the given article the analysis of an epidemiological situation concerning chronic forms of HCV infections in adults in the Kirov region in 1995-2010 is presented. In the region during analyzed period stable trend to the elevation of incidence of chronic hepatitis C and a slight decrease in the number of "carriers" of HCV on the background of steadily low indices of the occurrence of acute hepatitis C have been fixed. There are also presented the results of genotyping of HCV-virus in 730 patients with chronic hepatitis C treated at the Kirov Region infectious hospital and polyclinics in Kirov with the dominance of HCV subtypes 1b and 3a .

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