Hepatitis B and C markers in a Kurdish refugee camp in Greece

Skliros, E.; Lionis, Christos; Foudoulaki, L E; Sotiropoulos, Alexios; Spandidos, Demetrios A.

doi:10.1046/j.1440-1746.2001.02517.x

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“…These findings agree with those previously reported on Kurdish refugees coming from eastern Turkey [19] and with those reported on the Iraqi population [20,21]. In addition, the level of endemicity of HBV infection in the refugee population studied is in accordance with that found in a small sample of Kurdish refugees in Greece [22], although no distinction was made in the latter study regarding the country of provenience of refugees. The low prevalence of HBsAg carriers in children seems to indicate that vertical transmission is not a main route of transmission of HBV infection.…”

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confidence: 92%

Prevalence Rates of Viral Hepatitis Infections in Refugee Kurds from Iraq and Turkey

Chironna¹,

Germinario²,

Lopalco³

et al. 2003

Infection

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

Prevalence Rates of Viral Hepatitis Infections in Refugee Kurds from Iraq and Turkey

Chironna¹,

Germinario²,

Lopalco³

et al. 2003

Infection

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“…In three Italian seroprevalence studies among non-EU immigrants and Kosovo and Albanian refugees, anti-HCV was found in 0.9%, 0.7%, and 0.3%, respectively, prevalence far lower than that of the Italian-born population [185][186][187]. Similarly, 1.8% of Albanian and 0% of Kurdish refugees in Greece had anti-HCV, again far lower than the Greek local population [188,189]. A new type of ''short-term-treatment-seeking'' immigration, involves young Eastern European IDUs specifically seeking free rehabilitation programs in EU countries [190].…”

Section: Immigration As Part Of the Epidemiological Changementioning

confidence: 99%

The changing epidemiology of hepatitis C virus infection in Europe

Esteban

Sauleda

Quer

2008

Journal of Hepatology

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“…Indeed, epidemiological studies have reported a high HBsAg prevalence among immigrants from Albania (5.1-22.4%) [12,14,15] Eastern Turkey (7.1%) [16] and Asia (4.2-27.3%) [12,15].…”

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confidence: 99%

Epidemiology, course and disease burden of chronic hepatitis B virus infection. HEPNET study for chronic hepatitis B: a multicentre Greek study

Raptopoulou

Papatheodoridis

Antoniou

et al. 2009

Journal of Viral Hepatitis

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Hepatitis B virus infection (HBV) has been recognized as a major health problem worldwide. Greece belongs to the intermediate endemicity countries with a trend of decreasing prevalence of HBV infection during the last decade. However, the recent massive immigration to our country may have led to alterations of HBV epidemiology. In this study, we evaluated the epidemiological features of HBV infection in a sample of 3480 patients followed up during the years 1997-2006. Immigrants mainly from Albania represented the 18.6% of the total study population and 56.6% of children. The majority of the patients had no family history of HBV infection (67.3%) or of acute hepatitis (95.4%), no known source of infection (64.6%), with intrafamilial spread accounting for 16.9% of the HBV transmission in adults and 33.9% in children. HBeAg(-) hepatitis B was the predominant form of hepatitis (92.1%) among the Greek patients in contrast to the immigrants where 16.6% were HBeAg(+). Liver cirrhosis was diagnosed in 8.8% of the total population and 0.9% had hepatocellular carcinoma. A high proportion of children were HBeAg(+) (62%), 55% from immigrant families, 25.2% were infected in the perinatal period and had no evidence of disease complications. In conclusion our results showed (a) a changing pattern in the epidemiology of HBV infection in Greece due to the significant number of HBeAg(+) patients, especially among children and (b) a considerable number of patients although aware of their infection, present with advanced disease.

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Hepatitis B and C markers in a Kurdish refugee camp in Greece

Cited by 11 publications

References 6 publications

Prevalence Rates of Viral Hepatitis Infections in Refugee Kurds from Iraq and Turkey

Prevalence Rates of Viral Hepatitis Infections in Refugee Kurds from Iraq and Turkey

The changing epidemiology of hepatitis C virus infection in Europe

Epidemiology, course and disease burden of chronic hepatitis B virus infection. HEPNET study for chronic hepatitis B: a multicentre Greek study

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