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Table 2 Genotype distribution of 79 drug users by demographic features

From: Molecular epidemiology of hepatitis C infections in Ningxia, China: genotype, phylogeny and mutation analysis

Genotype

 

All

1a

1b

2a

2b

3a

3b

6a

6b

6u

p-valuea

Overall

 

79

1

20

6

2

32

8

5

4

1

 

Sex

           

0.589

Male

64

1

17

6

1

24

6

5

3

1

 

Female

15

0

3

0

1

8

2

0

1

0

 

Age

           

0.013

<30

14

1

4

2

0

5

1

1

0

0

0.843

31–40

25

0

1

1

0

15

3

2

3

0

0.010

41–50

36

0

15

2

2

11

3

1

1

1

0.029

≥50

4

0

0

1

0

1

1

1

0

0

0.117

Marriage

           

0.003

Unmarried

32

0

5

2

1

19

2

2

1

0

0.111

Married

16

1

3

4

0

3

4

0

1

0

0.004

Divorced or Widow

31

0

12

0

1

10

2

3

2

1

0.035

Ethnics

           

0.163

Han

40

0

12

2

1

18

1

3

2

1

0.153

Hui

31

0

5

3

1

11

7

2

2

0

0.033

Others

8

1

3

1

0

3

0

0

0

0

0.721

Education

           

0.175

Elementary school

35

1

10

5

0

9

3

4

3

0

0.035

Middle school

34

0

7

1

2

19

3

1

0

1

0.158

High school or college

10

0

3

0

0

4

2

0

1

0

0.754

Occupation

           

0.178

Employed

24

0

6

3

0

7

5

1

1

1

 

Unemployed

55

1

14

3

2

25

3

4

3

0

 

Drug use method

           

0.402

Injection drug user

51

1

13

4

2

19

6

1

4

1

 

Non-injection drug user

28

0

7

2

0

13

2

4

0

0

 

Drug use duration

           

0.069

<1 year

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1.000

1–2 years

12

0

4

0

0

6

2

0

0

0

0.735

3–4 years

25

0

5

2

0

7

4

4

3

0

0.072

5–10 years

23

1

3

4

0

12

2

0

0

1

0.060

>10 years

19

0

8

0

2

7

0

1

1

0

0.117

HIV co-infection

           

0.061

Yes

9

1

2

2

0

1

2

0

0

1

 

No

70

0

18

4

2

31

6

5

4

0

 
  1. HCV subtypes were determined by the sequence NS5B
  2. aRare subtypes including 1a, 2b, 6b, and 6u were removed from Fisher’s exact test. p < 0.05 were bolded