Epidemiology of hepatitis C virus in Iran

Table 6 Prevalence of hepatitis C virus among thalassemia patients in Iran

Author	Year of study	City or province	Location	No. of participants	No. of positive samples	Prevalence	Test	Ref.
Mirmomen	2002	Tehran	North-Center	410	80	19.6%	ELISA, RIBA	[138]
		Kerman	South-East	100	18	18.8%
		Qazvin	West-Center	95	23	25.3%
		Semnan	East-Center	81	19	24.4%
		Zanjan	West	46	1	2.2%
		Total		732	141	19.6%
Ansar	1997-1998	Rasht	North	105	67	63.8%	ELISA	[119]
Ghane	2010-2011	Gilan and Mazandaran	North	245	46	18.8%	ELISA	[139]
					28	11.4%	Nested-PCR
Tamaddoni	2005	Babol	North	113	12	10.6%	ELISA	[140]
Mansouritorghabeh	2007	Mashhad	North-East	360	30	8.33%	ELISA	[137]
Alavi	ND	Tehran	North-Center	90 (pediatric patients)	12	13.3%	ELISA, RT-PCR	[141]
Alavian	2002	Qazvin	West-Center	96	23	24.2%	ELISA, RIBA	[142]
Samimi-Rad	2004	Markazi	West-Center	98	7	7.1%	ELISA	[128]
					5	5.1%	RIBA
					2	2.04%	RT-PCR
Bozorgi	2005	Qazvin	West-Central	207	54	26.1%	ELISA	[143]
					50	24.01%	RIBA
Azarkeivan	1996-2009	Tehran	North-Center	395	109	27.5%	EIA, RIBA	[144]
Mahdaviani	2004	Markazi	West-Center	97	9	9.2%	ELISA	[129]
					7	7.2%	RIBA
Nakhaie	1999-2000	Tehran	North-Center	507	122	24.0%	ELISA	[145]
					41	8.1%	RT-PCR
Kalantari	2008-2010	Isfahan	Center	545	50	9.1%	ELISA	[124]
					31	5.6%	RT-PCR
Ataei	1996-2011	Isfahan	Center	466	37	8.0%	ND	[146]
Javadzadeh Shahshahani	2003	Yazd	Center	85	8	9.4%	ELISA, RIBA	[127]
Karimi	1999-2000	Shiraz	South	466 (pediatric patients)	73	15.7%	ELISA and immunoblot	[147]
Kashef	2006	Shiraz	South	131	24	18.3%	ELISA and immunoblot	[148]
					7	5.3%	RT-PCR
Kadivar	1999	Shiraz	South	147	40	27.2%	ELISA	[149]
Shahraki	2005-2007	Zahedan	South-East	560 (pediatric patients)	30	5.3%	ELISA	[150]
					20	3.5%	PCR
Hassanshahi	2006-2007	Kerman	South-East	181	81	44.7%	ELISA, RT-PCR	[118]
Ghafourian Boroujerdnia	2005-2006	Ahvaz	South-West	206	58	28.2%	ELISA	[151]
					46	22.3%	RT-PCR
Sarkari	2009-2010	Kohgiloyeh and Boyerahmad	South-West	49	3	6.1%	ELISA	[86]

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