Prevalence and risk factors of hepatitis B and C virus infections in an impoverished urban community in Dhaka,Bangladesh |
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| Authors: | Hasan Ashraf Nur H Alam Christian Rothermundt Abdullah Brooks Pradip Bardhan Lokman Hossain Mohammed A Salam Mohammed S Hassan Christoph Beglinger Niklaus Gyr |
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| Affiliation: | (1) ICDDR,B (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh), 68 Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Sarani, 1212 Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh;(2) University of Basel, Petersgraben 4, CH-4031 Basel, Switzerland;(3) Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, 21205 Baltimore, MD, USA;(4) BIRDEM (Diabetic Hospital), 122, Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue, 1000 Dhaka, Bangladesh |
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Background Viral hepatitis is a serious global public health problem affecting billions of people globally, and both hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections are rapidly spreading in the developing countries including Bangladesh due to the lack of health education, poverty, illiteracy and lack of hepatitis B vaccination. Also there is lack of information on their prevalence among the general population. So, a population-based serological survey was conducted in Dhaka to determine the prevalence and risk factors of HBV and HCV infections. |
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