Infecção pelo vírus da hepatite C na população de Londrina e região norte do Paraná: aspectos soroepidemiológicos e moleculares / Hepatitis C virus infection in a population from Londrina, PR, Brazil: serological, epidemiological and molecular aspects
AUTOR(ES)
Ingridt Hildegard Vogler
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2003
RESUMO
The objective of this work was to evaluate hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in individuals of Londrina, Paraná State, Brazil, and adjacent areas. Samples of blood donors and individuals infected with Human Immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were analyzed by microparticle enzyme immunoassay (MEIA). Anti-HCV antibody frequency was 0.8% in blood donors, and 20.2% in HIV patients. A group of 185 anti-HCV positive samples by MEIA was submitted to other laboratorial tests, in order to access the correlation among different methods used. Only 79% of samples were reactive by a second antibody-screening test (enzime-linked immunosorbent assay - ELISA), and a great proportion of discordant results was verified among blood donors. The same happened at HCV-RNA detection by polymerase chain reaction (PCR), where 111/166 (67%) of samples showed positive results, which was greater among HIV positive individuals and patients with chronic hepatitis than among blood donors. Only 15 samples were submitted to immunoblot (IB): positive results were obtained only at samples which were also reactive by the two antibody-screening tests used. We could also verify a great number of anti-HCV indeterminate results by IB, which also happened among samples tested negative by the second serologic assay. Although the small number of samples used in genotype determination of HCV, only 61, our data revealed that the circulating genotypes in our region are type 1 (77.1%), followed by type 3 (21.3%) and type 2 (1.6%). Finally, we evaluated some risk factors associated to HCV infection, and we found that intravenous drug use was the most common risk factor among patients HIV/HCV co-infected, while blood transfusion was the most important risk factor in the group without HIV infection. The present study contributed to the evaluation of HCV infection in our population, so that the distribution of HCV genotypes in the region could be accessed.
ASSUNTO(S)
imunodiagnóstico biologia molecular epidemiologia hepatite c anti-hcv imunologia clínica hepatitis c molecular biology genotypes epidemiology
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