Abstract
Infectious agents cause serious diseases in humans worldwide and are responsible for the high rate of morbidity and mortality. The prevalence and epidemiology of infectious disease (HCV) in the hospital visited patients referred by the physicians through the initial findings and their associated risk factors were studied in Swat. The data of 174 infected patients were collected during the period of 2015 to 2017 from two clinical laboratories of Tehsil Matta Swat. Inform consent form was taken before blood collection. After taking informed consent blood samples were collected and ICT test was performed and then ICT positive cases were conform through PCR. A total of 174 ICT positive samples [106 male and 68 females] were included in this study. Age was considered from 10 to 72 years. Of the 174 ICT strip positive, 99 [63 males, 36 females] were confirmed through PCR. The prevalence rate was recorded 56.89%. I.V/I.M injection was recorded in 100% of the individuals. Visits to the barber shop was reported in (58%) of the individuals, married individuals were (81.0), surgical operation was reported in (44.8%), sharing toothbrush was observed in (29.9%), piercing was reported in (39.7%), family history was reported in (26.4%), dental treatment was observed in (21.8%), jaundice were (13.2%) and tattooing was (1.7%). Blood transfusion, surgical operations, Jaundice, family history and dental treatment were found significant risk factors for acquiring HCV infection. It was concluded that proper implementation of precautionary measures should be needed to control the spread of HCV in far near future.
Highlights
Disease with hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a noteworthy worldwide wellbeing concern
HCV occurrence less than 2% was noted in areas as America, Europe (Western) and Australia, while zones with the most astounding HCV infection are Africa and the Mediterranean (Lavanchy, 2011)
Hepatitis C Virus belongs to the family Flaviviridae with an around 9.6 kb, single-stranded RNA genome
Summary
Disease with hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a noteworthy worldwide wellbeing concern. It is expected that about 170 million individuals are contaminated with HCV around the world; this ailment is turned out to be a heightening financial, social and wellbeing trouble (Lavanchy, 2011). The weight of this sickness in a significant number of the developed and developing nations is consistently on the ascent (Hajarizadeh et al, 2013). There were almost 13.2 million drug abusers around the world (Aceijas et al, 2004) and half of them appear to have been infected with HCV (Aceijas and Rhodes, 2007)
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