Objective: To determine the seroprevalence of hepatitis A, B, C and D virus infection among pregnant women attending a perinatal care hospital.
Material and methods: A prospective study was carried out to determine the seroprevalence of hepatitis A virus IgG antibodies (anti-HAV), hepatitis B virus markers (anti-HBcAg and HBsAg) and hepatitis C virus antibodies (anti-HCV) in pregnant women. In HBsAg positive cases. HBeAg and hepatitis D virus antibodies (anti-HDV) were investigated. All analyses were performed with the ELISA technique.
Results: Of the 1500 pregnant women studied. 93.3% were positive for anti-HAV IgG. The HBsAg seroprevalence was 0.26% and anti-HCV seroprevalence was 0.53%. There were no patients with HBeAg or anti-HDV.
Conclusions: A higher seroprevalence of HBsAg was found in this study than in other studies of pregnant Mexican women. We propose that HBsAg screening become a routine prenatal test.
[Prevalence of serologic markers of hepatitis A, B, C, and D viruses in pregnant women]
[Category] B형 간염,
[Source] pubmed
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