Epidemiology of hepatitis C virus in Iran

Table 2 Prevalence of hepatitis C virus among general population in Iran

Author	Year of study	City or province	Location	No. of participants	No. of positive samples	Prevalence	Test	Ref.
Zamani	2008-2011	Amol, Mazandaran	North	6145	12	0.20%	ELISA	[60]
					5	0.08%	RIBA
					3	0.05%	RT-PCR
Mansour-Ghanaei	2003	Gilan	North	383	9	2.30%	ELISA	[61]
					5	1.30%	RT-PCR
Shakeri	2010-2011	Mashhad	North-East	3870	8	0.20%	ELISA	[62]
					5	0.13%	RT-PCR
Ghadir	2006	Golestan	North-East	2123	56	2.60%	ELISA	[63]
					22	1.00%	RIBA
Merat	2006	Golestan	North-East	1895	18	1.00%	ELISA and RIBA	[58]
Merat	2006	Tehran	North-Center	2326	8	0.30%	ELISA and RIBA	[58]
Merat	2006	Hormozgan	South	1463	24	1.60%	ELISA and RIBA	[58]
Motlagh	2001	Ahvaz	South-West	80	5	6.25%	ELISA	[64]
					0	0.00%	Immunoblot
Nikbakht	2007-2008	Ahvaz	South-West	712	9	0.63%	ELISA	[65]
Moradi	2001-2002	Saravan,	South-East	365	3	0.80%	ELISA	[66]
		Sistan and
		Baluchestan
Sayad	2006	Kermanshah	West	1721	15	0.87%	ELISA, immunoblot and RT-PCR	[67]
Mohebbi	2007-2008	Lorestan	West	827	2	0.20%	ELISA	[68]

ELISA: Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay; RT-PCR: Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; RIBA: Recombinant immunoblot assay.