Báo cáo khoa học: " Hepatitis E virus infection is highly prevalent among pregnant women in Accra, Ghana" pdf

... to determine the prevalence of HEV infection in pregnant women in Ghana, and demonstrates the high prevalence of and the considerable potential for the transmission of HEV infection in pregnant women ... t-test. We also obtained the frequency of seropositive and seron- egative women. In the bivariate analysis, we evaluated the relationship between the age and serum result...

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... to determine the prevalence of HEV infection in pregnant women in Ghana, and demonstrates the high prevalence of and the considerable potential for the transmission of HEV infection in pregnant women ... women in Egypt and India, respectively [8,9]. In Ghana, studies of HEV seroprevalence in pregnant women have not been done previously. However, recently we obser...

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... the development of Diabetes. Since current methods of treating Diabetes is inadequate, the most effective way to reduce the burden associated with Diabetes is to prevent Diabetes itself and this ... chronic hepatitis C [18]. Hepatitis C virus and DM have been known to trigger each other but which disease predisposes more to the other is yet to be determined. Genetic predisposition...

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... medical care is free and therefore women of low socio-economic status frequently attend. In the sec- ond study, in order to determine the true HEV prevalence in the area, samples were collected from ... sentinel cent- ers, including clinics, hospitals, and maternity centers. The difference may therefore be due to a difference in the population studied and the higher HEV prevalence...

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... piercing. Among the female subjects in the age group (28 – 37 years), 20 of them exercise fre- quently. Exercise is not directly a risk factor to HCV infec- tion but lack of exercise (evidenced ... style intervention or pharmacologic agents (drugs) can reduce the development of Diabetes. Since current methods of treating Diabetes is inadequate, the most effective way to reduce the bur...

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... 3a (n = 3) were identified. The present study represents the first report on the epidemiology of HCV infection in long-distance truck drivers in Brazil. The prevalence of HCV infection found ... unprotected sex with multiple partners, including commercial sex workers, and history of STIs were frequent among the truck dri- vers investigated but were not associated with HCV infection...

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... strains were then com- pared with two references recently published from Papua Table 3: Percentage divergences of nucleotide sequences between present and reference strains 22.165.07 22.252.07 Region ... Phylogenetic trees were constructed from sequences of each region of HBV genome from the samples and sequences retrieved from GenBank. The sequences used for partial S and pre-C/ C were nucl...

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... strain diversity could help devise a better screening system for blood donors. However, this kind of information in China, especially in the northwest region, is lacking. In the present study, serological ... were subjected to DNA extraction and then genotyping by nest-PCR. A, gel electro- phoresis of PCR products after nest-PCR in genotype analy- sis (data represents one of three...

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... shown in Figure 1C in kinetic studies, there was no apoptotic effect detectable in the polyprotein expressing UHCV cell line, independent from the cell number seeded. In contrast, the core protein ... pathways Since in our experiments the major effect was induced by the core protein, we focused in our further studies on the UC cell line. To investigate whether the HCV core protein...

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