A systematic review of hepatitis C virus epidemiology in Asia, Australia and Egypt

W Sievert, I Altraif, HA Razavi, A Abdo… - Liver …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Systematic review: Asian patients with chronic hepatitis C infection

LH Nguyen, MH Nguyen - Alimentary pharmacology & …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Summary Background Chronic hepatitis C (CHC) infection is a risk factor for both the
development of end‐stage liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Globally …

Seroprevalence and trends in transfusion transmitted infections among blood donors in a university hospital blood bank: a 5 year study

P Pallavi, CK Ganesh, K Jayashree… - Indian Journal of …, 2011 - Springer
Blood is life. Transfusion of blood and blood components, as a specialized modality of
patient management saves millions of lives worldwide each year and reduce morbidity. It is …

Distribution of ABO and Rhesus-D blood groups in and around Bangalore

S Periyavan, SK Sangeetha, P Marimuthu… - Asian journal of …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Sir, The frequencies of ABO and Rhesus-D blood groups vary from one population to
another. There are no data available for Bangalore, Karnataka. Our aim was to determine …

Prevalence and trends of markers of hepatitis C virus, hepatitis B virus and human immunodeficiency virus in Delhi blood donors: a hospital based study

S Pahuja, M Sharma, B Baitha, M Jain - Japanese journal of …, 2007 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Transfusion transmitted infections (TTIs) are a major problem associated with blood
transfusion practices. A 4-year retrospective study from 2002 to 2005 was conducted at the …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence of hepatitis B in India

A Batham, D Narula, T Toteja, V Sreenivas… - Indian …, 2007 - indianpediatrics.net
Objective: To evaluate the point prevalence of Hepatitis B in India. Design: Meta-analysis of
data on point prevalence from different parts of the country. Data sources: Searches were …

Hepatitis C in India

A Mukhopadhya - Journal of biosciences, 2008 - Springer
Hepatitis C is an emerging infection in India and an important pathogen causing liver
disease in India. The high risk of chronicity of this blood-borne infection and its association …

[HTML][HTML] Seroprevalence of transfusion transmissible infections among voluntary blood donors at a tertiary care teaching hospital in rural area of India

PA Giri, JD Deshpande, DB Phalke… - Journal of family …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Background: Blood transfusion is a life-saving measure in various medical and surgical
emergencies. Transfusion medicine, apart from being important for the medical treatment of …

[HTML][HTML] High risk for occupational exposure to HIV and utilization of post-exposure prophylaxis in a teaching hospital in Pune, India

A Gupta, S Anand, J Sastry, A Krisagar… - BMC infectious …, 2008 - Springer
Background The risk for occupational exposure to HIV has been well characterized in the
developed world, but limited information is available about this transmission risk in resource …

[HTML][HTML] Association of ABO and Rh blood groups to blood-borne infections among blood donors in Tehran-Iran

F Mohammadali, A Pourfathollah - Iranian journal of public health, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of hepatitis B, hepatitis
C, HIV and syphilis infections in blood donors referred to Tehran Blood Transfusion Center …