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[Prevalence of HBV and HCV infections in plasma donors with recently increased ALT level]

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  • 1Clinical Immunology Research Unit, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical University, Wuhan.

Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi = Zhonghua Liuxingbingxue Zazhi
|August 1, 1993
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HCV and HBV markers in sera were examined in a group of donors (71 cases) who had a history of elevated ALT, and were compared with another group of blood donors (217 cases) who had no such a history. The results showed that the positive rates in both two groups of donors were 14.08% and 6.45% for anti-HCV, 3/8 and 2/13 for anti-HCV-IgM in anti-HCV positive cases, 2.82% and 0.46% for HBsAg, 32.39% and 25.35% for anti-HBs, 45.07% and 33.18% for anti-HBc, respectively (P < 0.05-0.01). It showed a good correlation between the positive rates of HCV and HBV markers and the times of ALT elevation.

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