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Association of Patients’ Geographic Origins with Viral Hepatitis Co-infection Patterns, Spain

2011; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Volume: 17; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3201/eid/1706.091810

1080-6059

Santiago Pérez Cachafeiro, Ana María Caro-Murillo, Juan Berenguer, Ferrán Segura, Félix Gutiérrez, Francesc Vidal, Maria Ángeles Martínez-Pérez, Julio Sola, Roberto Muga, Santiago Moreno, Julia del Amo,

HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk

Abstract To determine if hepatitis C virus seropositivity and active hepatitis B virus infection in HIV-positive patients vary with patients’ geographic origins, we studied co-infections in HIV-seropositive adults. Active hepatitis B infection was more prevalent in persons from Africa, and hepatitis C seropositivity was more common in persons from eastern Europe.