Objective<\/strong>: To investigate the seroprevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected cases, and to define any relationship between modes of transmission, sexual preference, international travel history, occupation and the frequency.\u00a0<\/p>\n Methods<\/strong>: In this study, 70 (56 males, 14 females) HIV infected patients who were admitted to the Clinic of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology between 1985-2007, were retrospectively evaluated for HBV or HCV infection.<\/p>\n Results<\/strong>: In 10 (14.2%) cases HBV infection, in 9 (12.8%) cases HCV infection and in 4 (5.7%) cases HBV and HCV infections were detected. Modes of transmission of HIV infection were sexual contact in 95.7%, parenteral contact in 4.3% and sexual and parenteral contact in 14.2% of the cases. Although in patients with sexual contact as the only the mode of HIV transmission, HBV and HCV infection prevalence were 14% and 8.9%, respectively, in patients with sexual and parenteral contact as the mode of HIV transmission, HBV infection prevalence was 20% and HCV infection prevalence was 40%. Seroprevalence of HBV and HCV was higher than the normal population in HIV infected cases. When HCV-infected cases were compared to cases without HCV infection, the ratio of intravenous drug use was significantly higher in HCV-infected cases.\u00a0<\/p>\n Conclusions<\/strong>: Seroprevalences of HBV and HCV were high in HIV-infected cases. The course and treatment of chronic hepatitis differ in these cases, and consequently all patients with HIV infection should be screened for HBV and HCV.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Abstract Objective: To investigate the seroprevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected cases, and to define any relationship between modes of transmission, sexual preference, international travel history, occupation and the frequency.\u00a0 Methods: In this study, 70 (56 males, 14 females) HIV infected patients who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4031,3197,4029],"class_list":["post-16566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-article","tag-hepatitis-viruses","tag-hiv-infection","tag-seroepidemiologic-studies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}