Seroprevalence of hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus and GB virus-C infections in Siberia.

• Main Authors: Ohba, K., Mizokami, M., Kato, T., Ueda, R., Gurtsenvitch, V., Senyuta, N., Syrtsev, A., Zoya, K., Yamashita, M., Hayami, M.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 1999
• Subjects: Research Article; Kamchatka Peninsula; Kamchatka; Siberia
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2809599; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10098797

We studied the seroprevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and GB virus-C (GBV-C) infections in 348 Siberian natives who lived in the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia. Of 348 samples studied, the seroprevalence of HBsAg and anti-HBs were 11.8% (41 of 348 samples) and 35.9% (125 o...