"High Seroprevalence of Hepatitis A, B, C, and E Viruses in Residents in an Egyptian Village in Nile Delta: A Pilot Study."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, "Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is hyperendemic in Egypt, with seroprevalence rates of 10-20% among volunteer blood donors, and even higher rates reported among segments of the general population. We attempted to confirm the high seroprevalence of HCV and to compare it with the age-specific seroprevalence rates for hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and hepatitis E among 155 nonrandomly selected residents of a semiurban village in the Nile River delta. Of the two orally transmitted viruses (HAV and HEV), all 1-3-year-old children had been infected by HAV and the seroprevalence rate...

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