Prevalence of active hepatitis C virus infections among general public of Lahore, Pakistan

Table 2 Previous HCV prevalence data among different communities of Lahore

Ref. #	Population type	Author	Methods	Population size	HCV (%)
[24]	General population	Aslam et al. 2001	ICT	488	6.70
[26]	General population	Tanvir et al. 2008	ICT	203	1.48
[12]	General population	Qureshi et al. 2010	ELISA	--^a	6.80
[11]	General population	Bosan et al. 2010	ICT, Lattix	1501^b	2.1-13.5
[22]	Pediatric population	Khan et al. 1996	EIA, RIBA	538	4.09
[23]	Pediatric population	Parker et al. 1999	ELISA	538	1.30
[27]	Pediatric population	Hyder et al. 2001	ELISA	171	0.58
[28]	Pregnant women	Zafar et al. 2001	PCR	300	4.00
[11]		Bosan et al. 2010	ELISA	4108^b	6.8-7.3
[29]	Blood donors	Chaudhary et al. 2005	ELISA	890	6.06
[11]	Blood donors	Bosan et al. 2010	EIA, ELISA, ICT	32326^b	4.1-6
[21]	Blood donors	Akhtar et al. 2013	ELISA	245	17.78
[31]	Hemophilia	Malik et al. 2006	ELISA	100	56
[11]	Other high risk groups	Bosan et al. 2010	ELISA	412^b	19-56

^aIn this national survey, samples collected from Lahore region were not mentioned.
^bData from a number of locally published reports, reviewed by Bosan et al. 2010 [11], have been combined.

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