Epidemiology of hepatitis C virus in Iran

Table 1 Prevalence of hepatitis C virus among blood donors in Iran

Author	Year of study	City or province	Location	No. of participants	No. of positive samples	Prevalence	Test	Ref.
Taheri Azbarmi	2003-2005	Rasht, Gilan province	North	49820	91	0.18%	ELISA and RIBA	[36]
Mansour-Ghanaei	1998-2003	Gilan	North	221508	3603	1.62%	ELISA	[37]
					709	0.32%	RIBA
Bani Aghil	2006-2008	Golestan	North-East	128198	161	0.12%	ELISA and immunoblot	[38]
Khedmat	2003-2005	Tehran	North-Center	1004889	21390	2.10%	ELISA	[39]
					1005	0.10%	RT-PCR
Attarchi	2003-2004	Tehran	North-Center	26645	42	0.20%	ELISA and RIBA	[40]
Khedmat	2005-2006	Tehran	North-Center	318029	323	0.09%	ELISA, immunoblot and RT-PCR	[35]
Bozorgi	2002-2004	Qazvin	West-Center	48116	73	0.15%	ELISA and RIBA	[41]
Mahdaviani	2004	Arak	West-Center	11615	81	0.70%	ELISA	[42]
					33	0.20%	RIBA
Bozorgi	2009	Qazvin	West-Center	20591	328	1.59%	ELISA	[43]
					35	0.17%	HCV confirmatory tests (ND)
Afzali	1996-2001	Kashan	Center	43731	477	1.10%	ELISA	[44]
Moniri	2001-2002	Kashan	Center	600	3	0.50%	ELISA	[45]
Karimi	2004-2006	Shahr-e Kord	Central	35124	70	0.20%	ELISA and immunoblot	[46]
Masaeli	2002-2003	Isfahan	Center	29458	24	0.27%	ELISA and RIBA	[47]
Esmaieli	2006-2007	Bushehr	South	20294	42	0.20%	ELISA and immunoblot	[48]
Ghavanini	1998	Shiraz	South	7897	47	0.59%	ELISA and immunoblot	[49]
Emamghorashi	2001-2003	Jahrom	South	3000	9	0.30%	ELISA and immunoblot	[50]
Kasraian	2002-2005	Shiraz	South	507531	710	0.14%	ELISA	[51]
Kasraian	2007-2008	Shiraz	South	93987	203	0.21%	ELISA and RIBA	[52]
Delavari	2003	Kerman	South-East	15252	60	0.39%	ELISA	[53]
Tajbakhsh	2004	Shahr-e kord	West	11472	69	0.60%	ELISA	[54]
Doosti	2003-2004	Shahrekord	West	11200	76	0.67%	ELISA	[55]
						0.59%	immunoblot
						0.41%	RT-PCR
Ghafouri	2006-2009	South Khorasan	East	42652	31	0.07%	ELISA	[56]
					13	0.03%	RIBA

ND: Not defined; ELISA: Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay; RT-PCR: Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; RIBA: Recombinant immunoblot assay.