%0 Journal Article
%T Hepatitis C virus infection in hemodialysis patients in Maracaibo, Venezuela
%A Monsalve-Castillo
%A Francisca
%A G¨®mez-Gamboa
%A Liliana
%A Chac¨ªn-Bonilla
%A Leonor
%A Porto-Espinoza
%A Leticia
%A Costa-Le¨®n
%A Luciana
%J Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de S£¿o Paulo
%D 2012
%I Instituto de Medicina Tropical
%R 10.1590/S0036-46652012000100010
%X over a two year period, the incidence of hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection was evaluated in 29 hemodialysis patients, aged between 15 and 75 years (mean ¡À sd: 45 ¡À 39.5 years), from the university hospital hemodyalisis unit, maracaibo, zulia state, venezuela. anti-hcv antibodies were determined using a fourth generation elisa (innotest hcv ab iv) kit and positive blood samples were tested using a recombinant assay kit (inno-lia hcv ab iii), both kits from innogenetics n.v., belgium. the findings indicate a lack of hcv seroconversion in the hemodialysis patients over the study period, confirmed by the recombinant assay. risk factors for hcv infection were 0.3270 (95% confidence interval: 0.01323-8.080) in patients undergoing hemodialysis. the findings suggest a lack of significant sources for hcv infection due to the preventive measures to avoid its transmission in the hemodialysis unit.
%K hepatitis c
%K incidence
%K hemodialysis.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0036-46652012000100010&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en