Screening for HBV, HCV, HIV, HSV and Syphilis in reproductive age group women attending a tertiary care hospital in South India

Murugesan, M.; Arumugam, Vijayalakshmi; Sowmya, AV; Gomatheeswari, Nithya

doi:10.5958/2394-5478.2016.00058.3

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“…In our study also same trend was seen. HIV and HBV co-infection and Syphilis & HBV coinfection was observed (0.4%) In some studies also this trend is seen, HBV and HIV infections occurring at the same rate, as most of the pregnant women were from low economic strata [9] In our study out of 2825 sera tested syphilis positive samples were 1. 52%.…”

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“…The syphilis and HIV co-infection (0.57%) was observed in our study. Serological screening for syphilis in study by Murugesan M et al [9] revealed 0.91% positivity in the study population as detected by RPR, which was further confirmed by TPHA. This finding was corroborative with 1.5% of syphilis cases identified by Prasad et al, [11] .…”

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“…In our study, HCV positive sera were found to be 0.1% and HIV & HCV, HBV & HCV and Syphilis & HCV coinfection was not seen. In the study by Murugesan M et al, [9] HCV and HIV were negative among the group. This correlates with other studies, which estimates that HCV infection in pregnant women is 0.5%.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…8 But one study showed 1.89% of their study group were positive for HBV. [9] Vertical transmission of HBV to fetus causes low birth weight, prematurity and chronic complications. In women with acute hepatitis, the transmission rate is around 90%, whereas the chronic carrier state without immune prophylaxis, the rate ranges from 10 to 20%.…”

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Int. J. Appl. Res.

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Present study was conducted for two years in Nair Hospital, Mumbai to analyze sero-evidence and coinfection if present with respect to antibodies to HIV1 and 2, Surface antigen to HBV, Antibodies to HCV and non-treponemal antibodies for syphilis. 2825 serum samples of pregnant women attending ANC of Nair Hospital was selected to detect the antibodies to HIV1 and 2 and 4% cases were found HIV positive. Further 230 serum samples from total cases were tested for hepatitis B surface antigen. Of these 230 cases, 100 cases were positive for HIV antibodies. From total cases, 1000 samples were screened for detection of antibodies for HCV and syphilis. Study showed incidence of HIV, HBV and HCV as 4%, 2.2% and 0.1% respectively. Co-infection of HIV and HBV, Syphilis and HBV was found to be 0.4%, while no co-infection was observed for HIV and HCV, HBV and HCV and Syphilis and HCV. To stop the vertical transmission of these infection, there is a need to continuously screen the serum of pregnant women at ANC.

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2018

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“…There are many studies about the seroprevalence of HIV, HBV, and HCV among blood donors 8,9 and specific groups like patients attending sexually transmitted diseases (STD) clinics, 10 and reproductive age females 11,12 but few studies about the prevalence among all the patients attending the hospital in general. We studied the same in a tertiary care teaching hospital in the rural area of Hyderabad.…”

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Incidence of newly diagnosed HIV, HBV, HCV infections in a tertiary care hospital in rural setting

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Aim: the study is conducted to estimate the incidence of newly acquired HIV, HBV, and HCV infections in patients comprising of paying and non paying cases in a tertiary care hospital in suburbs of Hyderabad. The study period included a duration of 1 year starting from 1 st January 2016 to 31 st December 2016. The two groups represent the difference in the socio economic status. Materials and Methods: the serum samples were received in microbiology laboratory from patients as routine surgical screening or anti natal screening. The testing for HIV, HBV, HCV is done according to the policy of the laboratory. Results: In the paying group, out of 4055 patients tested for HIV, and HBV the percentage of positivity are 0.62 and 2.34 respectively and HCV was positive in 0.73% of 2846 patients. In non paying group, the percentages of positive results are 1.066, 1.243 and 0.61 for HIV, HBV, HCV out of 3094, 2956, and 1140 respectively. These results show interesting trends in these two groups. In paying group the predominant infection is HBV infection while in nonpaying group the predominant one is HIV infection. Conclusions: these observations emphasize the role of socio economic status in the occurrence of HIV infection and the need for increasing efforts for education of this population, and the need for more wide spread vaccination of the population against HBV.

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