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Hepatitis A, B and C seroprevalence in Pakistan

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A cross sectional study was conducted to determine the seroprevalence of Hepatitis A, B, and C virus in healthy Pakistani children. HAV IgG antibody was assayed in 258 subjects and it was found that 94% children by 5 years of age had HAV IgG-antibody. The overall seroprevalence of HAV IgG antibody was 55.8% and IgM 5.3%. HBVsAb levels assayed in 236 healthy children showed a seroprevalence of 2.97%. Similarly, HCV antibody seroprevalence was found to be a low 0.44% in healthy children. HAV is a major cause of Hepatitis, as compared to HBV and HCV which are of low endemicity.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Unit-II, Civil Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

    Mubina Agboatwalla & Dure Samin Akram

  2. Department of Medical Zoology, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nagoya

    Shin Isomura

  3. Aichi Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Nagoya, (Japan)

    Kyouji Miyake, Teruo Yamashita & Takayuki Morishita

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Agboatwalla, M., Isomura, S., Miyake, K. et al. Hepatitis A, B and C seroprevalence in Pakistan. Indian J Pediatr 61, 545–549 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02751716

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