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Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction-Based Detection and Quantification of Hepatitis B Virus DNA
Published on: December 15, 2023
[Prevalence of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in closed communities and risk behaviour]
C Nazare1, Irina Gîrleanu, Camelia Cojocariu-Salloum
1Universităţii de Medicină şi Farmacie Gr. T. Popa Iaşi, Penitenciarul Bacău.
Aim:
To determine the prevalence of chronic hepatitis B virus infection in closed communities and the relations between the risk behavior and VHB infection.
Material And Methods:
In this study we included persons deprived of personal freedom at Bacau Correctional Facility. The subjects filled out a questionnaire, which contained identification and epidemiologic data (detention history, evaluation of the risk factors), as well as an informed consent. All subjects were tested for HBsAg.
Results:
According to the performed tests, the general prevalence of hepatitis B and C in this correctional facility was 15.34%, with a prevalence of hepatitis B of 10.74%. Although these figures show a higher prevalence in this population than within the general population, they are lower than the figures reported in correctional facilities from other countries.
Conclusions:
The results confirm the fact that the population in correctional facilities is at high risk for hepatitis B infection, the ways of disease transmission being already known (infected blood, injected drugs, tattooing, homosexual relationships).
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