Background Egypt has the highest prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the world,
estimated nationally at 14.7%. Our study's objective was to delineate the evidence on the …

Hepatitis C viral infection is endemic in Egypt with the highest prevalence rate in the world. It
is widely accepted that the implementation of mass population antischistosomal treatment …

BACKGROUND/AIMS: End-stage liver disease accounts for one in forty deaths worldwide.
Chronic infections with hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) are well …

Egypt is the country with the largest hepatitis C virus (HCV) epidemic in the world. In 2008, a
Demographic Health Survey (DHS) was carried out in Egypt, providing for the first time a …

An estimated 8–10 million people suffer from viral hepatitis in Egypt. Hepatitis A virus (HAV)
and hepatitis E virus (HEV) are the major causes of viral hepatitis in Egypt as 50% or more of …

In Egypt, schistosomiasis was traditionally the most important public health problem and
infection with Schistosoma mansoni the major cause of liver disease. From the 1950s until …

Injections are one of the most frequently used medical procedures. The World Health
Organization (WHO) estimates that 12 billion injections are given annually, 5% of which are …

The study was aimed to evaluate the effect of autologous transplantation of BM-derived
undifferentiated and differentiated MSCs in cirrhotic patients following chronic hepatitis C …

The epidemiology of hepatitis E virus (HEV), an enterically-transmitted cause of acute viral
hepatitis (AVH), is not fully understood. During outbreaks on the Indian subcontinent and …

This investigation's objective was to identify risk factors for hepatitis C virus (HCV) in a
village in Upper Egypt with a moderately high prevalence (8.7%) of antibodies to HCV (anti …