Viral co-infections in high-risk communities of Pakistan

Shah, Adil A.; Abidi, Syed Hani; Kalish, Marcia L.; Vermund, Sten H.; Ali, Syed

doi:10.1016/s2352-3018(15)00039-9

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“…6,7 Blood borne infections are usually considered occupational hazard for years and they also share common route of transmission. 8 Nursing staff is at the forefront of exposure to HCV due to needle stick injuries and non precautionary measures in high burden resource limited countries. Accidental needle stick injuries are considered most associated risk factor for transmission of Hepatitis B and C among health care workers.…”

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Hepatitis-C Virus Infection

Akhtar

Majeed²,

Majeed

et al. 2015

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Objectives: Nursing staff is at potential danger of getting HCV infection. Objectiveof present study is to determine the prevalence and associated risk factors of hepatitis C amongnurses in Lahore, Pakistan. It also aimed to estimate the HCV genotypes and find out anyrelationship between their working area and the incidence of HCV infection. Setting: Variouspublic and private hospitals of Lahore. Period: January 2013 to December 2013. Subjectsand Method: This study comprised 186 Nurses. All the samples were processed for Anti-HCVantibody detection through ELISA by using third generation ELISA Kit. Genotyping was alsoperformed on all positive samples. In this study the data were analyzed using SPSS version 16.A P-value < 0.05 was considered to be significant. Results: A total of 186 nurses were enrolledand screened for Anti HCV in the study. The mean age of reactive and non reactive nurses was22.33±1.15 and 23.66±1.97 years, respectively. Working experience in surgical wards, habitsfor going to beauty salon as well as the purpose for which nurses visited beauty salon wassignificantly associated with HCV status. i.e. p-value<0.05. Out of 9 reactive nurses, 8 patientnurses had 3a viral genotype while 01 patient had un-typeable viral genotype. Conclusion: Inour study nine nurses have HCV infection and are at danger of the disease.Theworking areaespecially surgical wards is a source of infection of HCV.

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