作者
William Sievert, Ibrahim Altraif, Homie A Razavi, Ayman Abdo, Ezzat Ali Ahmed, Ahmed AlOmair, Deepak Amarapurkar, Chien‐Hung Chen, Xiaoguang Dou, Hisham El Khayat, Mohamed Elshazly, Gamal Esmat, Richard Guan, Kwang‐Hyub Han, Kazuhiko Koike, Angela Largen, Geoff McCaughan, Sherif Mogawer, Ali Monis, Arif Nawaz, Teerha Piratvisuth, Faisal M Sanai, Ala I Sharara, Scott Sibbel, Ajit Sood, Dong Jin Suh, Carolyn Wallace, Kendra Young, Francesco Negro
发表日期
2011/7
来源
Liver international
卷号
31
页码范围
61-80
出版商
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
简介
Background: The hepatitis C pandemic has been systematically studied and characterized in North America and Europe, but this important public health problem has not received equivalent attention in other regions.
Aim: The objective of this systematic review was to characterize hepatitis C virus (HCV) epidemiology in selected countries of Asia, Australia and Egypt, i.e. in a geographical area inhabited by over 40% of the global population.
Methodology: Data references were identified through indexed journals and non‐indexed sources. In this work, 7770 articles were reviewed and 690 were selected based on their relevance.
Results: We estimated that 49.3–64.0 million adults in Asia, Australia and Egypt are anti‐HCV positive. China alone has more HCV infections than all of Europe or the Americas. While most countries had prevalence rates from 1 to 2% we documented several with relatively high …
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