Seroprevalence of Hepatitis B Surface Antigen in patients attending a tertiary care hospital Valsad, South Gujarat, India

Seroprevalence of Hepatitis B Virus Infection Among Patients Attending a Tertiary Care Centre in North-East India

“…followed by 31-40 (2.94%) yrs and 41-50 (2.37%) yrs. Similar results were noted by Sood et al and Patel et al [8,11] However, Tripathi et al observed highest prevalence in 31-40 years followed by 21-30 years, so it can be concluded that highest prevalence in 21-40 years indicating horizontal transmission. [10] Among females, highest prevalence was found in age group of 51-60 (1.39%) years followed by 61-70 (1.15%) years and 41-50 (1.13%) years Similar results were noted by Patil et al and Quadri et al [13,14] In our study, co-infection of HBV and HCV was observed in 0.096% which was lower than that of Desikan et al (1.89%).…”

“…[7][8][9][10][11] Patel et al showed the intermediate level of prevalence of 2.67%, in younger age group affecting more males. [11] Male predominance of HBsAg virus infection as compared with the female might be probably due to the higher exposure of male to occupational HBV indicating horizontal transmission, which may be due to unsafe injection practices, intravenous drug abuse, unsafe sexual practices and also probably because females clear the HBV more efficiently as compared to males. [2,12] Among males, highest occurrence was found in age group of 21-30 (3.29%) yrs.…”