دراسة التهاب الكبد الفايروسي هور الجبايش في العراق

الملخص EN

Total of 170 samples were collected from Al-Chibayish Marsh reality in Dhi- Qar governorate southern of Iraq to study the epidemology of viral hepatitis in these areas and to detect the type of hepatitis viruses which include A, B, C, D.

The percentage of hepatitis A was 1.17 % and most of them below age of ≤10 (66.6 %) while infection with hepatitis B account 5.29 % and includes all age groups.

There was no detected cases of hepatitis C, D.

The laboratory study showed that the incidence of hepatitis B higher in male (4.11 %) compared to female (2.35 %)