Antipa C, Popescu A, Teleguţă M, Ruţă S, Cernescu C, Târdei G, Copelovici Y, Stoian M, Tivgă N, Hoinărescu M
Institut de Virologie Stefan S. Nicolau, Bucarest, Roumanie.
Rom J Virol. 1993 Jan-Jun;44(1-2):9-15.
A study was conducted on 61 polytransfused patients, 24 patients submitted to long lasting parenteral treatments, 116 blood donors and 132 controls. Immuno-enzymatic tests were used for detection of antibodies against hepatitis C virus (HCV). They were found in 56 (91.8%) out of the 61 polytransfused patients, in 5 (4.3%) of the donors, in 5 (20.8%) of the patients with multiple treatments and in 5 (3.7%) controls. The VHB markers were detected at variable rates in all investigated groups. The high rate of seropositivity indicates that hepatitis C is becoming an important public health problem in Romania.
