seropositivity of antibodies against hepatitis a virus in mashhad, northeast of iran, 2009: a cross-sectional community-based study
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conclusions as it was previously reported by the world health organization (who) on hav infection in the country, this study revealed a high prevalence of hav infection in mashhad. background hepatitis a virus (hav) is the most common cause of acute viral hepatitis worldwide, mostly in developing countries. objectives this population-based survey was performed to investigate hav seroprevalence in mashhad, northeast of iran. patients and methods a cross-sectional study was performed on 1563 randomly selected individuals from general population of mashhad, iran, between may and september 2009. serum samples were tested for total anti-hav antibodies using the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa) kit. data was analyzed using spss ver. 18.0 by chi-square and student's t-tests. results seroprevalence of hav infection was 69.6% (95% ci: 67.3-71.9%) with no difference between males and females. anti-hav seropositivity increased with rising age from 9.4% in subjects younger than 5 years to 100.0% in individuals older than 65 years old (p < 0.001).
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razavi international journal of medicineجلد ۳، شماره ۲، صفحات ۰-۰
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