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. 1991 Jul:26 Suppl 3:192-5.
doi: 10.1007/BF02779297.

Hepatitis C virus infection is the major cause of severe liver disease in India

B N Tandon  1 , M Irshad, S K Acharya, Y K Joshi
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Hepatitis C virus infection is the major cause of severe liver disease in India

B N Tandon et al. Gastroenterol Jpn. 1991 Jul.

Abstract

The present study describes the status of hepatitis C virus infection in 167 patients with severe forms of liver diseases in India. The anti-HCV positivity rate was recorded as 43%, 47%, and 42% in patients with FHF, SAHF, and CAH respectively. HBV and HCV coinfection was recorded in 28% of FHF, 43% of SAHF and 75% of the CAH cases. Superinfection of HCV in HBsAg carriers was recorded in the 54% cases of FHF, 60% of SAHF and 42% of the CAH. None of these 167 patients was positive of HAV-IgM. Further, 27.7% of FHF, 26.4% of SAHF and 15.2% of CAH cases were neither HBV nor HCV markers positive. These can be labelled as non-A, non-B and non-C infections.

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