Seroprevalence of hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV infection among patients undergoing haemodialysis in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Conclusion. Despite the implementation of universal precautionary biosafety standards for dialysis, infection with HBV and HCV continues to occur at very high rates in HD patients. The results emphasize the need to carry out proactive tasks for early diagnosis and treatment of infected individuals and to vaccinate those with non-protective antiHBs antibodies in order to reduce morbidity and mortality in HD patients. PMID: 33180017 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Medical Microbiology - Category: Microbiology Authors: Tags: J Med Microbiol Source Type: research