A Seroepidemiologic Survey of Hepatitis C Virus Infection among the Dentist in Japan.

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The hepatitis C virus (HCV) was identified by the Chiron group in 1989, using genetic engineering techniques, and it is presently believed to be the main etiologic agent for non-A non-B hepatitis. Recently, we could detect antibody of hepatitis C virus (anti-HCV) using the test kits of RIA or EIA. So, we investigated the prevalence of and-HCV in general practitioners among the Japanese dentists. Of 382 practitioners, ten (2.6 %) were positive for anti-HCV. However, three of them had a history of transfusion. It is clearly well known that the most frequent infection is transfusion. Therefore, these three were omitted and the positive rate of and-HCV was 1.8 %. This result, ie, the difference between dentists and health care workers, which were reported by other investigators, was not significant. However, it is a little higher than that of blood donors data.
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