Prevalence of HCV infection among health care employee at Al Azhar University Hospitals in Cairo, Egypt
Joint Authors
Abd Allah, Muhammad Darwish Ahmad
Abd al-Hamid, Muhammad Rashid
Zayn al-Din, Ahmad Naji Afifi
al-Dasuqi, Yasir M. M.
Source
Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology
Issue
Vol. 47, Issue 3 (31 Dec. 2017), pp.459-466, 8 p.
Publisher
The Egyptian Society of Parasitology
Publication Date
2017-12-31
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
8
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
HCV-infection is the main cause of chronic liver disease among Egyptians, the most common-ly infected population with HCV genotype 4.
Evidences of HCV-transmission that are associated with health-care settings have consistently accumulated over recent years worldwide.
Therefore, healthcare workers (HCWs) are the target population of the current study.
The study evaluated prevalence of HCV-infection among different sectors of HCWs at Al Azhar University Hospi-tals.
The population (n=239) were divided into four groups.
G1(n=59) included healthy controls who were not working at hospitals.
Other subjects (n=180) consisted three equal groups (2, 3 & 4) who were working at Al-Azhar University Hospitals.
Respectively, workers, nurses and phy-sicians presented group 2, 3 & 4 (n=60 each) from different hospital wards.
Based upon duration of employment at hospitals, subjects in each of the last three groups were subdivided into 3 sub-groups (n=20 each).
Risk-factors that were thought to have an impact on acquisition of HCV-infection were evaluated.
The overall prevalence of HCV infection in study populations was 21.34% with the highest rate in nurses (38.3%) and workers (20%) when compared to controls (15.3%) and physicians (11.7%; P<0.05).
The significantly increased HCV infection in nurses compared to physicians (P<0.05) was found during all employment periods.
Needle stick injury, incidental exposure to blood and body fluid splashes were respectively prominent risk-factors among nurses (70%, 60% & 35%) and workers (35%, 21.7% & 18.3%).
Nurses and hospital workers had high prevalence of HCV infection.
Long duration of nurse employment was associated with increased frequency of needle sticks and subsequently high prevalence of HCV-infection, but not physicians.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Abd Allah, Muhammad Darwish Ahmad& al-Dasuqi, Yasir M. M.& Abd al-Hamid, Muhammad Rashid& Zayn al-Din, Ahmad Naji Afifi. 2017. Prevalence of HCV infection among health care employee at Al Azhar University Hospitals in Cairo, Egypt. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology،Vol. 47, no. 3, pp.459-466.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Abd Allah, Muhammad Darwish Ahmad…[et al.]. Prevalence of HCV infection among health care employee at Al Azhar University Hospitals in Cairo, Egypt. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology Vol. 47, no. 3 (Dec. 2017), pp.459-466.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Abd Allah, Muhammad Darwish Ahmad& al-Dasuqi, Yasir M. M.& Abd al-Hamid, Muhammad Rashid& Zayn al-Din, Ahmad Naji Afifi. Prevalence of HCV infection among health care employee at Al Azhar University Hospitals in Cairo, Egypt. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology. 2017. Vol. 47, no. 3, pp.459-466.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-840767
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes appendices : p. 465-466
Record ID
BIM-840767