Epidemiology of hepatitis C virus in Iran

Table 4 Prevalence of hepatitis C virus among hemodialysis in Iran

Author	Year of study	City or province	Location	No. of participants	No. of positive samples	Prevalence	Test	Ref.
Makhlough	2006	Mazandaran	North	186	39	21.0%	ELISA	[99]
					21	11.3%	RT-PCR
Amiri	2001	Gilan	North	298	80	26.8%	ELISA	[100]
					74	24.8%	Immunoblot
Joukar	2008	Gilan	North	514	61	11.9%	ELISA	[101]
					32	6.2%	RT-PCR
Samimi-rad	2005	Markazi	West-Center	204	11	5.4%	ELISA, RIBA and RT-PCR	[102]
Bozorghi	2006	Qazvin	West-Center	89	9	10.3%	ELISA	[103]
					6	6.4%	RIBA
Somi	2012	Tabriz	North-West	455	37	8.1%	ELISA	[104]
Zahedi	2010	Kerman	South-East	228	16	7.0%	ELISA	[105]
					7	3.0%	PCR
Kalantari	2010-2011	Isfahan	Center	499	26	5.2%	ELISA	[106]
Zamani	1998–2005	Amol, Tonekabon, Rasht and Ramsar	North	334	67	20.0%	ELISA, RT-PCR	[107]
		Mazandaran and Gilan provinces
Assarehzadegan	2005-2006	Khuzestan	South-West	214	34	7.9%	ELISA, RT-PCR	[108]
Nemati	1990-2006	Tehran	Center	112	6	5.3%	ELISA, RT-PCR	[109]
Sotoudehjahromi	2006	Jahrom	South	34	3	8.8%	ELISA	[110]
					2	5.9%	RIBA
Alavian	2003	Tehran	North-Center	838	176	21.0%	ELISA	[111]
					111	13.2%	RIBA
Broumand	2002	Tehran	North-Center	548	105	19.6%	ELISA	[112]
					51	9.33%	RT-PCR
Nasiri-Toosi	2007	Tehran	North-Center	130	11	8.5%	ND	[113]
Mohammad-Alizadeh	2002	Hamedan	West	96	9	11.4%	ELISA	[114]
Saboor	1999-2000	Kermanshah	West	140	37	26.4%	ELISA	[115]
Jabbari	2008	Golestan	North-East	93	23	24.7%	ELISA, RIBA	[116]
Ansari	2005-2006	Urmia	North-West	50	19	38.0%	EIA	[117]
					12	24.0%	RT-PCR
Hassanshahi	2006-2007	Kerman	South-East	203	64	31.5%	ELISA, RT-PCR	[118]
Ansar	1997-1998	Gilan	North	93	52	55.9%	ELISA	[119]

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