[Epidemiological assessment of the hepatitis B and C infectious disease markers in Baku and Nakhtchivan healthy population].

Article is devoted to an estimation of spreading the subclinical infections caused with hepatitis B and C viruses among healthy adult inhabitants of Baku and Nakhchivan cities by detection of frequency of revealing serological markers of HBV (HBsAg) and HCV (anti-HCV) infections. The authors by the meta-analysis have generalized the results previously received in several seroepidemiological studies among healthy inhabitants of these cities and came to the conclusion that average HBsAg and anti-HCV detection rate have made--3.0 % and 4.0 %, accordingly. It has allowed believing that the Azerbaijan Republic can be classified as territory with moderate intensity of circulation of HBV and HCV.